Rasmus Nielsen
Bio
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
He is also Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. He was previously Director of Research at the Reuters Institute and and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics.
His work focuses on changes in the news media, on political communication, and the role of digital technologies in both. He has done extensive research on journalism, American politics, and various forms of activism, and a significant amount of comparative work in Western Europe and beyond.
His books include The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy (2010, edited with David Levy), Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns (2012), Political Journalism in Transition: Western Europe in a Comparative Perspective (2014, edited with Raymond Kuhn) and Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism (2023, co-authored with Ruth Palmer and...
