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Disinformation and AI: the industrial revolution?

2024-02-22. NewsGuard research shows that tech improvements will shortly allow AI to foster “fake news” at an unprecedented scale, in unbelievable volumes and seizing advertising revenues from news media while plagiarising their content.

How Schibsted and Mediacorp are deploying AI in the newsroom

2024-02-22. As AI becomes mainstream in everyday work, there are many editorial opportunities for newsrooms to discover. However, incorporating AI in your workflow can seem daunting. How does a newsroom begin this integration?

WAN-IFRA Unveils ‘AI Unlocked’ Programme to Drive Media Innovation, Creativity and Sustainability.

2024-02-21. WAN-IFRA announced the launch of “AI Unlocked.” The programme and forum is tailored for all news media publishers interested in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on their organisation. Through AI Unlocked, media professionals will learn, discuss, experiment with, and define ways to use AI in their business. The initiative is open to news publishers around the globe.

Tributes pour in for ‘Dean of Sudanese press’ and Golden Pen Laureate Mahjoub Mohammed Saleh

2024-02-15. The African media fraternity is mourning the passing of award-winning, veteran Sudanese journalist and 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom recipient Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh, who died in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, aged 96.

Death, exhaustion and suspicion: AFP journalists on the horrors of Gaza

2024-02-12. Every day since October 7, AFP’s team of journalists in Gaza have been risking their lives to cover a war that has shaken the world. They have all had to flee their homes, working without respite in the shadow of death in a territory they are not allowed to leave.

‘There’s no such thing as a deadline’ – investigative veteran David Walmsley on fostering emerging talent in the newsroom

2024-02-09. The Globe and Mail’s Editor in Chief has many stories to tell, none more compelling than his 30-year investigation into the final flight of Zulu Delta 576 – and how it continues to impact his career, and newsroom, today.

Documented: redefining community service journalism for the mobile age

2024-02-09. Award-winning non-profit news site Documented has taken audience engagement to the next level, and is now covering three New York immigrant communities via social media with news, investigations and resource guides. It’s just journalism, they say…

WEXFO: The Global Free Speech Recession – and How to Fight It?

2024-02-08. High-profile speakers have joined the programme of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO) in Lillehammer, a city renowned for its links to literature and writers at risk

The role of tech in FUNKE Media Group’s ongoing transformation

2024-02-05. “Digitalisation is a technology-driven development. When technology is part of the problem/challenge, it can also be part of the solution. And that is, what we have been good at in the past and our mission is to be good at it in the future to adapt to “new” market mechanisms and technologies faster than others.” That is from Heimo Krum, head of transformation for FUNKE Technology in Germany. | Sponsored Content

World’s press condemns threats and legal harassment of cartoonist Carlín and La República in Peru

2024-02-02. WAN-IFRA has denounced efforts by government and police in Peru to undermine freedom of expression after the publication of a cartoon drawing attention to recent public scandals.