Nic Newman
Lead Author Digitalnews Report 2021, Reuters Foundation

Nic Newman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University where he is lead author of the annual Digital News Report, the world’s largest on-going study of consumer behaviour around news.  He also authors an influential annual report on Media and Technology trends and is a regular speaker about the future of journalism worldwide. 

Before this Nic was a journalist and senior editor at the BBC and was a founding member of the BBC News Website in 1997 where he led international coverage. As Head of Product Development and Engineering for BBC News he helped introduce innovations such as apps, blogs, podcasting and on-demand video. For ten years he led digital teams, developing websites, mobile and interactive TV applications for News, Sport, Weather and Local.