News reporting on TikTok is growing rapidly, bringing new opportunities as well as significant challenges. Newsrooms are experimenting with short-form, visual storytelling to reach younger audiences. At the same time, far-right influencers and alternative media actors are increasing their presence on the platform. 

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The research project "TACTik: The Transformation and Consequences of News on TikTok", funded by Swedish Research Council, investigates how TikTok is reshaping the way news is created, narrated, and understood, particularly among young adults.

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In this startup workshop, the team from the TACTik project will present the project’s vision and ongoing developments. The session will also bring together experts in online journalism, social media studies, computational analysis of news videos, and journalistic institutions to discuss the key issues and challenges involved in researching platform journalism and working with complex social-media data.