About

I am Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen and Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

My research is focused on the changing role of news and media in our societies. I have written extensively about journalism, digital media, the business of news, political communication, misinformation and related topics in dozens of scholarly articles, edited volumes, and books, including Ground Wars (winner of the American Political Science Association’s Doris Graber Award for the best book on political communication published in the last ten years), The Power of Platforms (with Sarah Anne Ganter), and Avoiding the News (with Benjamin Toff and Ruthie Palmer). In addition, I have been a co-author of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report since 2015.

A frequent speaker at academic, industry, and policy-making conferences, I have provided expert advice to both governments and news media companies in several countries. I served on the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation, chaired the Forum on Information & Democracy working group on the sustainability of journalism, and chair an expert committee appointed by the Danish government to review media subsidies. My work has been covered by a wide variety of media all over the world, and I have written for the Financial Times, El Pais, the Hindu, the Indian Express, Zeit Online, the Washington Post, and many other publications. I tweet at @rasmus_kleis.

I was Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in the UK from 2018 to 2024 (and previously Director of Research from 2015 to 2018), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics from 2015 to 2017. I have degrees from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Essex, and my PhD from Columbia University, and have previously taught at Columbia University, Ludwig Maximilian University, Roskilde University, and the University of Oxford.

For a complete overview over my research, please consult my Google Scholar Profile.

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