Reuters Digital News Report Ireland 2024

Professor Colleen Murrell researches international newsgathering, transnational broadcasting and digital media. She is currently writing a book on BBC newsgathering. She is also the research lead for the annual Reuters Digital News Report Ireland (2021-6), part of a global research study into the habits of digital news consumers. The other FuJo researchers on the project are Dr Dave Robbins, Dr Dawn Wheatley and Dr Claire English. She teaches broadcast journalism at DCU and is an external examin...

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....

Claire has a PhD in Communications from DCU which examined changing media consumption practices and civic engagement. Claire is interested in the continuities and changes in audience behaviour over time and the relationship between news consumption, civic engagement and future of funding for media organisations. She is an audience research specialist with experience working in news media organisations and market research. She was Head of Research for The Irish Times Group and also worked with BB...