UK news audiences look beyond the platform feed
Intermediaries are a common route to news, but few people rely on them alone. Separate research finds falling overall trust alongside steadier views of individual news brands.
Media & public trust
News habits, public information and the changing relationship between publishers and their audiences.
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This is your reminder, for academic social media quality is better than quantity
The break up of academic Twitter has made it more difficult for academics to amass large social media audiences. However, as Andy Tattersall argues, the size of your follower count was never as important as the quality of the network you were joining and developing around your work.
LSE Impact · Andy Tattersall
World & context Expert analysis
Money has many ways to skin the democracy cat
Australia’s new political finance laws target big donations, but money buys influence in many other ways, from lobbying and media narratives to market power that shapes voter preferences. Real reform needs to go beyond donation caps to include competition policy, fairer public funding, and far greater transparency.
360info · Gabriele Gratton UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia
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An evaluation of a breastfeeding peer support service in North East England: A qualitative study with service users, practitioners and volunteers
Background: Breastfeeding has health benefits for women and infants. Although the WHO recommends that infants are breastfed exclusively for the first six months, exclusive breastfeeding rates remain low in the UK, with many women stopping breastfeeding within six weeks of their infant’s birth. Many women face challenges initiating and continuing breastfeeding, including low confidence, limited support and misinformation. Breastfeeding…
PLOS One · Kerry Brennan-Tovey, Simon Barrett et al.