Reuters Digital News Report Ireland 2026

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...

Callum Craig is a postdoctoral researcher on theReMeD: Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age project. He holds a PhD in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, with a thesis titled "Collective Victimhood Narratives in the United States Congress and Northern Ireland Assembly". Callum also holds an MA in Violence, Terrorism, and Security and a BA in History and International Relations from Queen’s University Belfast. In collaboration with Ulster University, he also acts as a stat...

Irene is a post-doctoral researcher on the ReMeD: Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age project. She holds a PhD from Dublin City University. Her research explored the role of human-centred design for audience engagement in legacy newspapers and the implications for journalism. She has worked as a journalist for over a decade in Greece, covering international news with a focus on European and US politics and elections, the economy, the refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and society. H...

Eileen Culloty is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications where she is Deputy Director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society and chair of the BA in Communication Studies. Her work focuses on disinformation, media literacy education, and the future of public media. Eileen leads the Ireland Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and serves as Co-Chair of Media Literacy Ireland, the national network for media literacy coordinated by Coimisiún na Meá...

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...