Fascinating in depth profile of Alex Karpf, the Democrat supporting co-founder with Peter Thiel of Palantir. Dowd is clearly sympathetic but you do get a detailed picture of the man that left me more, not less uneasy nytimes.com/2024/08/17/sty…

Just arriving in Singapore - looking forward to a couple of days with the Asian Journalism Fellowship's members celebrating their pioneering work since 2009 - talking AI and the future of news - if you are around say hello! ajf.sg

Interesting how ⁦The Telegraph⁩ is going all in on Trump. Every story framed from his POV. Tells you a lot about current state of the nationalist Conservative Right. Same agenda as most of the leadership contenders. Great if you're not a Tory. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

This is going to be a very exciting project delivering AI innovation around the world - please share!

It featured a keynote address by Professor Charlie Beckett, Founding Director of Polis at the Department of Media and Communications of the London School of Economics and Political Science. (3/10)

Professor Beckett explicated on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the newsroom, underscoring its utility in supplementing the work of journalists, rather than replacing them entirely. (4/10)

Attention journos reporting on AI technologies, we need your input so we can better support the field of AI accountability reporting. If you believe in elevating AI coverage in the newsroom, avoiding both hype and alarmism, please share your thoughts with us in this survey. Txs!

🎉Great news! 🎉 We’re proud to announce the selection of 20 exceptional journalists, editors, and newsroom managers from across 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa who will be part of our next cohort of the #JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms!

I was recently in Singapore to speak at the 15th anniversary reunion of the Asia Journalism Fellowship, funded by Temasek Foundation. This article is based on that event: Journalism in the age of AI: Balancing Innovation and Integrity ipscommons.sg/journalism-in-…

Christ this is corrupt. A completion designed to eliminate competition #carabao bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

Academic critical theory is not so different from conspiracy theory: excellent from Dan Williams open.substack.com/pub/conspicuou…

Musk is selective. Remember when he complied to have posts blocked in Turkey, but somehow doesn't want to do similar in Brazil

Our Arabic language Journalism and AI Discovery course kicks off today - it's a weekly email - 3,317 people from more than 80 countries have registered #LSE #JournalismAI journalismai.info/programmes/dis…

#THREAD I've spent 28 years researching & teaching about propaganda, capitalism, & news media. I'm telling you that if "Christian" billionaire GB "News" owner, Paul Marshall, is allowed to buy the #Spectator, it will be a catastrophe for Britain, the environment, & democracy.

Today we've seen how good the UK media is at chasing people to blame after the event. Shame they didn't pay attention to the warning signs before the #Grenfell fire. The news media is not as culpable as all the others but it clearly failed in this case.

This is incredibly exciting. We have a new grant-making programme to back newsrooms who want to use AI to support their journalism. Please share!

New study🚨: ‘Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK’ in Journalism: (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… Thread 1/9

Online overtakes TV as biggest source of news in UK for first time, according to latest Ofcom news consumption survey pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience…