[ecrea] Post-doc research jobs at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, U of Oxford

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in the 
Department of Politics and International Relations is seeking to appoint 
one or more post-doctoral researchers to work for one or two years as 
part of a larger project aimed at analysing media developments in a 
sample of more than thirty countries (most of them in Europe), with a 
particular emphasis on digital media, news, and politics.

The RISJ is looking for individuals who can take responsibility for and 
deliver on distinct parts of a larger project to advance our 
understanding of how journalism is changing in different contexts in 
light of the rise of digital media. These positions are an exceptional 
chance to be part of one of the largest international studies of 
journalism and news in the world.

The purpose of the larger project is to develop a better understanding 
of media developments in these countries (and their implications), 
including the interplay between analogue and digital media and the 
relation between news provision and news consumption. The project output 
includes both academic publications and publications oriented primarily 
at media industry professionals, practicing journalists, and 
policy-maker audiences.

The individuals appointed will primarily be working with RISJ Director 
of Research Rasmus Kleis Nielsen as part of the wider project, which 
expands our ongoing, annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report 
(www.digitalnewsreport.org <http://www.digitalnewsreport.org>) and our 
wider Reuters Institute research activities. The work will primarily be 
focused on a combination of desk-based research, interviews, and 
analysis of secondary sources of data (including industry data), some of 
it in collaboration with others, as well as with a wider network of 
outside partners from both the academy and the media industry.

We are particularly interested in new colleagues who can help us develop 
our understanding of one of the following key areas:

• Distributed news: how are media users navigating an increasingly 
distributed media environment where digital intermediaries like search 
engines, social media, and the like play a more and more important role 
in terms of the discovery and distribution of news?
• The business of digital news: how are media organisations developing 
new sources of revenue and new business models to sustain news 
production in a digital media environment?
• The value of news: how can we better understand, quantitatively and 
qualitatively, the value of news from the point of view of individual 
news users and society as a whole, especially in light of the move to a 
high-choice, increasingly digital media environment?
• Innovation and product development in digital news: how are legacy 
and/or digital-born media organisations adapting to a rapidly evolving 
digital environment and how can one assess the advantages and 
disadvantages of different approaches to innovation and development?

The posts will be based on fixed-term full-time contract terms at the 
Reuters Institute, 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford, and is available as soon 
as possible for up to 2 years. Start date and length will be agreed 
individually.

The successful candidates will have a completed doctorate (or evidence 
of imminent completion) or equivalent experience in a substantive area 
of political or other social science including journalism/media studies; 
experience in working with relevant methods including desk-based 
research, quantitative and qualitative data, and secondary sources in 
analysing digital media as well as familiarity with the existing 
literature and work in the field of comparative/international media 
research. The duties and skills required are described in more detail in 
the further particulars, these are available from our further 
particulars (below) or from the Personnel Office, Department of Politics 
and International Relations, e-mail: (vacancies /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(vacancies /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)>. <mailto:(vacancies /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk).>

The closing date for applications is noon, UK time on *Friday 16th 
December 2016*.

Interviews will take place on Monday 9th January 2016 and Tuesday 10th 
January 2017.

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