AI and Newsroom Workflows

Join us for the final in our AI and Journalism series. In this webinar, we will hear how newsrooms in Australia and around the world are adapting existing workflows and developing new ones in response to AI. You will learn how to map and design a workflow for an AI-related process, and how to identify and mitigate risk factors in AI-related workflows. 

Date: 8 August 2024

Time: 3.30pm-5pm Sydney time

Venue: Virtual

Tickets: Free, registration essential

TRAINER

Gary Rogers is a Newsroom Strategy Consultant who helps media organisations to develop new ways of working and engage with audiences. He became interested in AI and automation in journalism in 2015. That curiosity led him to co-found RADAR AI, a data journalism agency for local news now operated by PA Media in the UK. Gary began his career in print but spent many years in broadcast as a producer and editor at the BBC and ITN. He has worked globally, setting up and re-structuring news operations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.

EXPERT SPEAKERS

* Caroline Fisher is Associate Professor of Communication/Journalism at the University of Canberra and a co-author of the Digital News Report: Australia, published annually by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Her research interests include: trust in news media; news consumption trends; regional journalism, conflict of interest & disclosure in journalism; political public relations; and, the intersection between journalism and public relations. Prior to academia Caroline was a reporter/producer for ABC News, ABC Radio National, and a former senior ministerial media adviser.

* Shaun Davies, former director of content safety for Microsoft’s Start news feed globally. He’s held senior journalism, PR and tech roles across Asia and now advises on AI and safety for creative industries.