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By Damian Radcliffe Artificial intelligence is reshaping multiple industries, including journalism. In the week of World Press Freedom Day, it’s worth considering how the technology can impact media freedom. This picture is complex. On the one hand, AI, and generative AI, can be a powerful tool to support newsrooms, but it can also be weaponized against them. Globally, the state of press freedom was classified as a “difficult situation” in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index, the first time this label has been used to categorize Against this backdrop, the U.N. notes that “AI brings new risks.”…

Artificial intelligence may bring about the end of the world as we know it – but not in the way most would expect By Dr. Mathew Maavak, who researches systems science, global risks, geopolitics, strategic foresight, governance, and Artificial Intelligence The global economy was already navigating a minefield of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) when US President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs reverberated across international markets. This aggressive escalation of trade barriers, including a mélange of sudden rate hikes, retaliatory measures, and rhetorical brinkmanship, didn’t just amplify the chaos; it ignited the specter of a full-blown economic firestorm.…

Indian multimedia journalist Sudeshna Chowdhury has nearly two decades of experience, writing for a wide range of outlets on topics such as human rights, gender, and the environment. She is also a professor at UPES Dehradun. “I am invested in training the next generation of journalists in the country,” she explained. Previously, Chowdhury lived and worked in the U.S. and she has reported internationally from countries such as Japan and Turkey. Born in the town of Digboi, she’s currently based in Dehradun, which is located in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Chowdhury spoke with IJNet about how she got her start in…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Reporters, newsroom leaders, product managers, and AI strategists gathered in the former printing press of Politiken, Denmark’s largest newspaper. The setting was apt for the third annual Nordic AI in Media Summit (NAMS), which brought together journalists from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and across Europe, to Copenhagen for a two-day conference. Full Report: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/nordic-ai-in-media-summit-2025/

The Wikimedia Foundation outlined its new AI strategy on Wednesday, stressing that it’s decided to use AI as a tool to support editors, not replace them. “Our investments will be focused on specific areas where generative AI excels, all in the service of creating unique opportunities that will boost Wikipedia’s volunteers,” Chris Albon, the Wikimedia Foundation’s director of machine learning, and Leila Zia, the foundation’s head of research, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes. (Also announced Wednesday, by the way: The Wikimedia Foundation is one of five finalists for a $100 million MacArthur grant.) Full Article: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/wikipedia-announces-new-ai-strategy-to-support-human-editors/

What threatens journalism is not just disinformation or hostile governments. It is who can – and who cannot – afford to enter the profession, writes news industry veteran François Nel Article Link: https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-freedom-gap-what-pay-and-class-reveal-about-the-future-of-journalism/s2/a1242823/

Chitranshu Tewari “AI-driven accessibility isn’t only better product design but also good business.” AI is everywhere. Amidst all the doom and hype, newsrooms are discovering a wide range of use cases for AI in journalism and its workflows. However, as with any emerging technology, this often leads to the mindless application of tools. For instance, in India, TV news channels are now filled with AI anchors. In a market notorious for misinformation, bigotry, and government propaganda, introducing an AI anchor does little to address the trust deficit among viewers. This is what I call “using AI for AI’s sake”— employing…

Mitali is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). She is gold medalist of Radio of Television Journalism Post Graduate Diploma Course of IIMC Indian journalist Mitali Mukherjee has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Mukherjee, who has been Acting Director since Rasmus Nielsen stepped down last October, was selected in an open process that concluded in late March. Her appointment was announced by Alan Rusbridger, Chair of the Institute’s Steering Committee, and Professor David Doyle, Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford, where the…

Charles Martin The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google’s news services, such as Apple News, diminish its branding by downplaying where it gets its new stories. The new accusations come in the midst of an ongoing investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the two tech giants’ dominance in web browser engines and smartphone operating systems. The new complaint from the BBC suggests that aggregate news services minimize credit for the providers of the news those programs feature.Because the BBC gets its budget from a unique “licence fee”…

By Sherry Ricchiardi, Digital and Physical Safety In a column about how to interview vulnerable sources without exploiting them, media ethicist Kelly McBride issued a reminder: “Reporters have an extra ethical obligation when working with people who don’t routinely give interviews.” These words ring especially true in countries where those who speak publicly about certain issues risk being attacked for their views. In South Asia, religion is one topic likely to unleash a firestorm of backlash. Journalists on the religion beat face difficult choices. Giving voice to those with less of a platform breathes life into their reports. Without these…