Digital News Report 2025

Dan Lloyd is a PhD candidate at Dublin City University’s School of Communications. His research explores the Attention Economy and its implications for news organisations in the digital ecosystem. His work focuses on cognitive psychology, information dissemination structures, and audience and industry data, aiming to develop new quality criteria for online content beyond existing metrics. In addition to his doctoral research, Dan is a research assistant for the annual Reuters Digital News Rep...

Dr Eileen Culloty is Deputy Director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) and an Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Communications. She coordinates the Ireland EDMO Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, which aims to advance research on disinformation, support fact-checking and media literacy, and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. Eileen’s book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital ...

Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and how worked on and researcher a number of real world deliberative assemblies including We the Cit...

Dr Dawn Wheatley is an assistant professor in the School of Communications whose teaching and research focuses on journalism, political communication, and social media. She received her PhD in 2018 for her research into online news production and coverage of the Irish healthcare sector, and remains particularly interested in sources, voices and diversity in the news. She is also involved in various international projects, co-leading the Irish contribution to the Worlds of Journalism study which ...

Dr Dave Robbins is director of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society, and an associate professor of journalism in the DCU's School of Communications. He worked for 25 years as a journalist in national print and broadcast media, and also worked as a special advisor to the Minister for the Environment. Dave's research examines media representations of climate change, and he has worked with several media organisations to strengthen and deepen their climate coverage....