 In early 2018, she was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, where she leads the Journalism Innovation Project.Posetti was the subject of Australia's first threatened Twitter lawsuit however no writ was ever issued by the man who made the threat, Editor-in-Chief of "The Australian", Chris Mitchell.On 25 November 2010 while at the Journalism Education Association of Australia conference in Sydney, Posetti used Twitter to cite part of a presentation by rural reporter Asa Wahlquist, who suggested that the editor in chief of "The Australian" had been prescriptive about her election coverage of environmental stories.