Ike Picone

Associate Professor Journalism/Media Studies @VUBrussel,
News use research @imec_smit @mediapuntvl @nieuwsgebruikbe,
Green OA publications @

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Is a financially viable news media market the key to fighting disinformation in Europe? 🤔

Marlen Komorowski, @LambrechtsGijs and I sought to find out via a cross-country quantitative study, now published in open access.

https://t.co/eZJ203t9me

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

The DNR25 is out!

As usual, we zoomed in on Flanders, Belgium and surfaced 9 key trends in news use @NieuwsgebruikBE

https://t.co/ssXb8td1nv

[Reuters Institute @risj_oxford]

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!

📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers

📱Explore now https://t.co/I2o3QjqABU
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

[Reuters Institute @risj_oxford]

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out!

📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers

📱Explore now https://t.co/I2o3QjqABU
🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

"He’s a creature of appetite and instinct who hunts and feeds in a dark sub-ethical realm. You don’t hold a shark morally responsible for mauling a swimmer. You just try to keep the shark at bay—which the American people failed to do."

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Our university @vubrussel is opening 12 postdoc positions and a help desk aimed at welcoming American researchers looking for a free environment to pursue their research...

https://t.co/wTXaLL4Tj2

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

A team effort by Hanne Peeters, @eilah_tan, Joren Van Nieuwenborgh, @MichOpgenhaffen & Peter Van Aelst
resulting from the First Aid With Doubt project supported by @vlaamseoverheid.

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Did this really happen or not?

Well, the publication of our article exploring news doubt & its antecedents in any case did!

Through 31 interviews, we conceptualise news doubt as moments when people feel uncertain about the accuracy of a news story.

https://t.co/lrZCxfHguH

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Let's debate how to manage public debate, of course, but 1) moderation is not censorship. Pretending it is feels like a bad faith argument; 2) free speech knows limits by design, so an argument for limits to free speech is not per se one pro censorship.

https://t.co/9MT9mwzJkI

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Thanks for all the effort, guidance and openness to engage with all the partners and new ideas over the years!

[nicnewman @nicnewman]

Some personal news. This will be my last year leading our flagship Reuters Institute Digital News Report and we’re looking for a new lead author to take it to the next level. More details about this opportunity here https://t.co/Fq2GaRbiZO
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[imec-smit, VUB @imec_smit]

📢 This morning our researchers @ikepicone, Pauljan Truyens @SarahVis & Sien Van de Wouwer launch the Flemish figures from the Digital News Report 2024.

To follow the livestream, please register via the link:
https://t.co/Cy2ep9MD3u

[imec-smit, VUB @imec_smit]

Today, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism launches its yearly Digital News Report. Based on the the report, our researchers have summarised 𝟵 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 in Flemish news consumption.

Read all about it in this policy brief⬇️ https://t.co/s1tDElLq7a

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Vandaag lanceert @risj_oxford #DNR24, een intern

De cijfers voor Vlaanderen vind je naar goede gewoonte op @NieuwsgebruikBE.

@imec_smit @VUBrussel @mediapuntvl

[Nieuwsgebruik.be @NieuwsgebruikBE]

🔔 De cijfers van het Digital News Report 2024 zijn er!

📊 Op https://t.co/QOjlgEEFcH vind je de 9 meest opvallende trends voor Vlaanderen en België.

📈 En ook onze monitor met cijfers over de evolutie van nieuwgebruik van 2017 is upgedate.

📺 Volg mee: om 10u webinar

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

When media companies own many brands, do we see some of their brands promote some of the others? Yes, to some extent.

Happy to see this collab out!

Fun fact: classmates first, then colleagues since ages, now finally co-authors too @BenjaminDeCleen ;)

https://t.co/neftCeB3BV

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

A warm welcome to attend the lecture series I will be giving titled ‘The information disorder as a cultural myth: unravelling our fictions about facts’ as holder of the Francqui Chair 2024.

(Inaugural lecture in French.)

Special thanks to @geopatriarche for making this happen!

[Geoffroy Patriarche @geopatriarche]

"Le trouble informationnel : un mythe en construction" (14 mars 2024): Leçon inaugurale de @ikepicone, qui s'est vu attribuer la Chaire Francqui 2023-2024 de @uclouvainslbxl. Inscription requise pour la leçon inaugurale: https://t.co/SHmfvYOaBV. @Edmo_Belux @engage_uslb

[Bavo @bavve22]

@LambrechtsGijs @ikepicone Is er een… livestream?

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

Helder punt van @eilah_tan! Hetzelfde geldt voor onze visie op de media: kritisch zijn voor journalistiek kan zeker, maar moet constructief gebeuren of je riskeert het wantrouwen erin te voeden...

[Nathalie Van Raemdonck @[email protected] @eilah_tan]

Mijn eerste bijdrage voor @Sampol_magazine als gastcolumnist gaat over een 'voorzorgsdenken' die al langer op mijn maag ligt. Desinfo is problematisch, maar de oplossingen kunnen dat ook zijn, zeker als men door de "dreiging" legitieme bezorgdheden gaat minimaliseren

[Jonathan Hendrickx @JnthnHndrckx]

In onderstaand artikel analyseren @MichOpgenhaffen en ik de staat van Vlaamse nieuwsmedia op hun eigen platformen en socialemediakanalen in 2023.
Rode draad: nieuwsgebruik stijgt quasi overal - behalve op Facebook.
Draadje met voornaamste conclusies:
https://t.co/uaZvTgQkcv

[imec-smit, VUB @imec_smit]

📢 Studenten gezocht!

Op 13/2 organiseert @TITAN_Thinking een co-creatie Lab. Evalueer en test samen met ons het prototype van onze AI-chatbot.

🎁Cadeaubon van https://t.co/hx1ztJUQCt t.w.v. €50

➡️Registratie: https://t.co/5dP5RNpDTS of scan de QR-code hieronder

[Ike Picone @ikepicone]

When the word 'tapestry' pops up in a student paper, I suspect ChatGPT was called upon...