Exactly 15 years ago, Nic Newman wrote the very first comprehensive report on the state of product management in news organisations. Today, we want to take stock and analyse the successes, failures, a...
Nic Newman
Nic Newman is Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism where he is lead author of the annual Digital News Report, the world’s largest on-going study of consumer behaviour around news (2012-2025). He also authors an influential annual report on journalism and technology trends and has published recent research on the news habits of young people (including the role of TikTok), and the adoption of AI by news publishers and audiences. Other research interests include podcasts and digital audio, new storytelling formats, social media and misinformation and trust in news.
Nic also works as a consultant helping media companies with product strategy, data metrics, and digital transformation. He was a founding member of the BBC News Website in 1997 where he led international coverage. As Head of Product for BBC News he helped introduce innovations such as apps, blogs, podcasting and on-demand video. For ten years he led digital teams, developing websites, mobile and interactive TV applications for News, Sport, Weather and Local.
Events IJF 2025
The 2024 festival panel and article outlining seven ways to combat news avoidance struck a chord with industry practitioners. In this follow-up, we propose to showcase approaches that are demonstrably...
The evidence is clear. We see rising levels of news avoidance and news fatigue in most countries and a disconnect between the agenda and formats provided by news publishers and what audiences say they...
After a brief introduction of how TikTok has become an important source of news for the young, and an update of the top news accounts in the world based on the recent Reuters Institute TikTok report, ...
The pandemic threw all our thoughts about how to run a newsroom out of the window. Journalists around the world adapted overnight to working from home, any dips in production quickly recovered and new...
Podcasts have been a welcome growth area for the media in recent years. Consumption is growing, listeners are young and educated, and engagement is high. But what was initially a low-cost route to div...
The daily news podcast has emerged as a powerful format for creating new habits around news. Done right, the audience will often build a strong relationship with the host (or hosts), creating the loya...
Everyone is talking about audio - but what's in it for your newsroom? (and your business and your audience) If podcasting was already on the rise last year, it is exploding now and newsrooms all over...
What do Product Managers do anyway? Why are they paid so much? Why does everything take so long? Why don’t they speak English? Can’t editorial do this better? This session allows you to get strai...
News publishers need distribution partners to survive online. But the news ecosystem is conflicted about what makes a fair relationship between platforms and publishers. How much traffic are publisher...
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