Damian Radcliffe, School of Journalism and Communication

Damian Radcliffe

Damian Radcliffe, Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism

damianr@uoregon.edu
Practice Areas: AI and Journalism, Generative AI, Social Media, News Media Trends, Community Journalism, Media Policy, Hyperlocal

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Biography:

Damian Radcliffe is an academic and industry expert on areas including global news media trends, the business of journalism, and community-centered reporting. An award-winning educator, analyst, journalist and researcher, Damian has more than 30 years of experience across the U.S., U.K., and Middle East, in commercial, public, nonprofit, academic, and policy-focused media organizations, spanning print, digital, television, and radio. His work focuses on how news organizations are responding to technological change, shifting audience behavior, and evolving revenue models in a rapidly changing media landscape. 

Damian is the lead author of WAN-IFRA’s annual World Press Trends report and as a researcher, speaker and training he has worked organizations including the Thomson Reuters Foundation, BBC World Service, DPG Media, the United Nations and Meta. Recent projects have examined AI adoption in Global South newsrooms, social media ecosystems in the Middle East, and policy tools to support local journalism in the United States. Damian is a three-time Knight News Innovation Fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, a former Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture Studies, and an Academic Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, and he is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

He is also the founder and curator of the Demystifying Media speaker series at the University of Oregon. 

Damian holds an MA (Oxon) and BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford.

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