Nic Newman
About
Nic Newman is a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, where has been the lead author of the annual Digital News Report (2012-2025); the world’s largest on-going study of consumer behaviour around news.
He authors an influential annual report on media and technology trends and has published recent research on trust, paying for news, the changing nature of social media and the impact of artificial intelligence.
Before the Reuters Institute, Nic spent 20 years as a journalist mainly at the BBC. He was a founding member of the BBC News Website where he led international news coverage for five years before heading up technology and product development for BBC News for almost a decade.
Expertise
- Future of journalism in the face of digital and AI disruption
- The role of AI in news
- Digital news consumption
- Social media, content creators, younger audiences, video and audio
- Wider issues around innovation in the news industry
- Audience research, polarisation and paying for the news
Selected publications
- Journalism and Technology Trends and Predictions 2026
- Mapping News Creators and Influencers in Social and Video Networks (2025)
- Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
- Paying for News: Price-Conscious Consumers Look for Value amid Cost-of-Living Crisis (2023)
- How publishers are learning to create and distribute news on TikTok (2022)
- The Kaleidoscope: Young People's Relationship with News (2022)
Media experience
Nic Newman has experience of interviews with a wide range of media and news outlets.
Languages
English