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Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers on data journalism for the Olympics. · Read | Dima Saber on journalism and AI · Read | Sarah Kent on covering fashion. · Read | Dr. Bahareh Heravi on using AI in the newsroom. · Read | Peter Pomerantsev on fighting disinformation during the EU elections. · Read | Adriaan Basson on South Africa's crucial election. · Read
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How AI chatbots responded to questions about the 2024 UK election
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AI newsroom guidelines look very similar, says a researcher who studied them. He thinks this is bad news
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Generative AI is already helping fact-checkers. But it’s proving less useful in small languages and outside the West
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Spotting the deepfakes: how AI detection tools work and where they fail
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What’s wrong with the robots? An Oxford researcher explains how we can better illustrate AI news stories
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Julia Angwin: “AI makes it much easier to flood the zone with misinformation”
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I trained an AI model with my own scripts and created a chatbot to help journalists make viral vertical videos
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How the news ecosystem might look like in the age of generative AI
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AI, lies and conspiracy theories: How Latinos became a key target for misinformation in the US election
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Nordic AI in Media Summit 2024: Five projects you should keep an eye on
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How AI disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it
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AI deepfakes, bad laws – and a big fat Indian election
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How student journalists covered US campus protests
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Mar Cabra from The Self-Investigation on how media leaders can protect their teams (and themselves) from burnout
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In a Europe increasingly fractured, this project is betting on one-on-one talks as a way to find common ground
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Is freelance journalism still viable? Not for most of the reporters we spoke with. These are their key problems
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A scoop by nonprofit Correctiv sparked huge pro-democracy protests all over Germany. How did they pull it off?
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Seven things journalists can do to counter news avoidance
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International Journalism Festival 2024: what we learnt in Perugia about the future of news
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Hundreds of journalists go into exile every year. These are the problems they face and how to tackle them
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This editor is breaking news on Bangladesh from afar: “The space for independent media is shrinking fast”
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Under attack from so many quarters, press freedom in Brazil is now threatened by some judges too
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A Kremlin mouthpiece at the heart of Africa: how Afrique Média helps Putin court audiences in their own language
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BBC senior verification expert on debunking Israel-Hamas war visuals: “The volume was beyond anything I’ve ever seen”
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Why Tucker Carlson interviewed the eccentric frontrunner of Argentina’s election
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The year-long fight of a Filipino news site against red-tagging and state censorship
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