Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Oct 18 2024 313 ep. 32 mins 7.7k
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The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is Oxford University's international research centre in the comparative study of news media.

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Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 5 – Defining your strategy around AI and disinformation

Oct 18 2024 5 mins  
Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: how AI and disinformation have become intertwined, and what that means for journalists battling fake news. Featuring: Peter Pomerantsev: – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp9DRz4NGI Dima Saber- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oOOk3b5sw4 Script and editing: Caithlin Mercer Music by Patiño Full transcript

Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 4 – Navigating ethics in sensitive stories

Oct 18 2024 4 mins  
Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: one of journalism’s most enduring challenges - navigating ethics when covering sensitive stories. Featuring: Connie Walker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqN6utz8iE4&t=2785s Anas Aremeyaw Anas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPXpVaH_TM&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=27 Script and editi

Fellowship Takeaways. Episode 3 – AI and innovation in journalism

Oct 18 2024 6 mins  
Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: how AI is revolutionising newsrooms and opening up new possibilities for journalism. Featuring: Bahareh Heravi – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mqXG5y6ENA&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=5&t=7s Dima Saber - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oOOk3b5sw4&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&inde

Missing angles on the climate crisis

Oct 09 2024 5 mins  
Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: covering the climate crisis, with a focus on how local stories can shape global conversations on this crucial topic. Featuring: Friederike Otto – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cw7DsPn7xY&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=25&t=432s Wanjira Mathai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoAhqHSMSc&list=PL

Fellowship Takeaways Episode 1 – How to cover democratic regression

Oct 04 2024 7 mins  
Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: what can we learn from experts in Indonesia, South Africa and Argentina about political coverage in times of democratic regression? Featuring: Sana Jaffrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8770X9hRZlU Adriaan Basson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd77JBQdFSs&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=7 Hugo

AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 5 - Is it possible to build a local radio station powered by AI? This tech CEO says so

Aug 14 2024 10 mins  
Broadcast radio is facing an existential question: can it survive in the digital era, when young audiences don’t know what FM and AM mean? Tech company Futuri Media says they can revitalize local radio using AI. Tech company Futuri Media says they’ve created a tool that can do everything local radio does via AI including local news, interviews, music, and weather and traffic re

AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 4 - How Swedish Radio balances journalism and AI without falling for hype

Aug 13 2024 11 mins  
How do you best integrate AI in your news strategy as a public service broadcasting organisation? That is a question that Swedish Radio has been pondering and tackling first hand for the past year. Swedish broadcasting organization, Swedish Radio, has been a pioneer when it comes to innovation in the audio space with AI as they have been reshaping audio news production and curation

AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 3 - Meet NAT, the AI-generated presenter offering soft news to Mexican audiences

Aug 06 2024 9 mins  
Mexican news organisation 'Grupo Fórmula' has created an AI news anchor to attract younger audiences. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with Oswaldo Aguilar Castro, Director of Technology and AI Infrastructure. An AI news presenter named NAT is one of several synthetic news anchors created by Mexican broadcasting group Grupo Fórmula to attract younger audiences. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with

AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 2 - The day AI clones took over a Swiss radio station

Aug 02 2024 10 mins  
On April 27 2023, artificial intelligence took over a radio station in francophone Switzerland, the voices were AI clones of their real hosts, everything they said were scripts generated by AI, and even the music played was aggregated and composed by AI. On April 27 2023, artificial intelligence completely took over the Couleur 3 radio station in Switzerland. The voices were AI clo

AI and the Future of Audio. Episode 1 - When AI meets creative writing: an audio experiment at Czech Radio

Jul 24 2024 9 mins  
Can AI write better short stories than a human writer? This is the questions at the heart of the Digital Writer project from Czech Radio. Since 2020, Czech Radio has been experimenting with generative AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, to see what it would sound like when AI meets human creativity. The result has been four seasons of their ongoing podcast series called Digital Writer.