Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen and Senior Research Associate of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

His research is focused on the changing role of news and media in our societies. He has written extensively about journalism, digital media, the business of news, platform companies, 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, runner-up for the 2024 ICA Journalism Studies Book Award), and Avoiding the News (with Benjamin Toff and Ruthie Palmer, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2025). In addition, he has been a co-author of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report since 2015.

A frequent speaker at academic, industry, and policy-making conferences, he has provided expert advice to both governments and news media companies in several countries. He 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 chaired an expert committee appointed by the Danish government to review media subsidies.

His work has been covered by a wide variety of media all over the world, and he has written for the Financial Times, El Pais, the Hindu, the Indian Express, Zeit Online, the Washington Post, and many other publications.

For a complete overview over Dr Nielsen’s research, please consult his Google Scholar Profile.