S3E09: AI - Threat or Opportunity?

S3E09:

What will the use of artificial intelligence mean for the news and media industry? Is it a threat to jobs or an opportunity to be more creative and uncover new stories and new audiences?

In this episode, Craig Wilson is joined award-winning journalist Charlie Beckett from the Polis Journalism and AI project at the London School of Economics to discuss this topic.

Our Guest This Episode

Charlie Beckett

Charlie Beckett is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications. He is the founding director of Polis, the London School of Economics' (LSE) international journalism think tank. Professor Beckett is currently leading the Polis Journalism and AI project. He was director of the LSE’s Truth, Trust, and Technology Commission that reported on the misinformation crisis in 2018. He is the author of SuperMedia (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) that set out how journalism is being transformed by technological and other changes. He was an award-winning filmmaker and editor at LWT, BBC, and ITN. He began his career on the South London Press and ended it as a program editor at Channel 4 News where he covered major stories such as the terrorist attacks on New York and London. He was a specialist in politics and international affairs.

More Resources

For more on this topic, check out

All Things AI – A podcast from 2021 looking at AI within the newsroom

Tomorrow’s News – A series of reports based around the DPP Tomorrow’s News initiative

Contact Us

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Credits

Host: Craig Wilson

Producer: Matt Diggs

Social: Wim Van den Broeck

Theme Music: Greg “Stryke” Chin