
Neil Thurman
@neilthurman
Professor @LMU_Muenchen's @ifkw_lmu, Honorary Senior Research Fellow @CityJournalism & former @VolkswagenSt Fellow.
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If you're at #ECREA2024, come along to the Journalism Business Models panel tomorrow at 14:30 in rm FDV 3 to hear about our new study 👇 Also on the panel: Liisa Ovaska @GiordanoZambell Raul Ferrer-Conill & Sofia Contreras-Yap.



Human editing is key to improving automated content! New #LMU study reveals that #AI-generated news is harder to understand than articles written by humans. This is due to AI's poor word choice and handling of numbers. lmu.de/en/newsroom/ne… #Journalism #Research Neil Thurman

Many thanks to VolkswagenStiftung for their generous support of this project!

"Our findings suggest that using automation to produce data-driven news articles changes their perceived composition in ways that negatively impact comprehensibility. However [such] articles could be made more comprehensible" in post-edit Thread ⬇️ on Neil Thurman et al research

Our new study on news publishers' paywall strategies is featured in this Journalism.co.uk piece. We dug deep into millions of visits to paywalled news articles on 21 news websites to find out what prompted & prevented non-subscribers starting & finishing the subscription journey.

New Nieman Lab piece on our recent paywalls study. @s_peppered does a great job presenting the findings comprehensively, accurately & with flair. Thanks Sophie! niemanlab.org/2025/02/less-i… Our study: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… niemanlab.org/2025/02/less-i…

Today we published a report on UK journalists: who they are, how they work and what they think. Edited by Neil Thurman, Imke Henkel, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & Richard Fletcher, it's based on a 2023 representative survey 📱Read it buff.ly/gIBRL1f 🧵Findings in thread


NEW on our site: Mitali Mukherjee, Robyn Vinter [email protected], Kira Richards, Dr Glenda Cooper and Neil Thurman discussed the findings of our recent #UKJournalists report City Journalism on Monday Here's a summary of the panel by Marina Adami: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-chang…