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New research report: How can new audio technologies build trust and engagement?
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE This article is by Polis Visiting Research Fellow Ville Kinnunen of Finnish broadcaster Yle Voice technologies are changing the way we use machines to access information. We...
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Journalism in viral war-time
Journalists are under enormous pressure right now. There is a huge public appetite for information and debate and the means to feed it are tougher than ever. The coronavirus story is unprecedented. It...
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The performance of news: what journalism can learn from the theatre
Journalism and theatre have much in common – and not just because both professions are full of show-offs. Both have shown resilience to threats from new technologies. The early 20th-century development...
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The impact of AI and collaboration on investigative journalism
Emilia Díaz-Struck is research editor and Latin American coordinator for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She oversees data projects and has been involved in some major...
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Why we are launching a collaboration to experiment with AI
Journalism faces many challenges. This was true before the COVID-19 emergency and is even more obvious now. More often than not, solutions to those challenges are found with a combination of...
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75 years on: Richard Dimbleby’s BBC report on the liberation of Belsen...
75 years ago the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first broadcaster to report from the liberation of Belsen concentration camp by the British Second Army on April 15th, 1945. His 10 minute radio report...
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How a global news innovator uses AI
Viktoriia Samatova is the Managing Director of the Applied Innovations Team at Reuters Technology. She is based in Toronto, Canada. For our interview series with women working on the intersection of AI...
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The science of data in action: changing our lives and our journalism
Anna Vissens is Lead Data Scientist at The Guardian in London. For our interview series with women working on the intersection of AI and journalism, Anna spoke to us about a career that has gone from...
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Helping journalists understand the power of machine learning
In the global survey we conducted last year about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by news organisations, most respondents highlighted the urgent need to educate and train their newsroom on the...
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Online identity theft: a personal story of the policing problem
Online identity theft is a frightening real crime, even though it happens online. In this article, Ukrainian journalist Valeria Kovtun, currently an LSE MSc student, gives her first-hand experience of...
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Is the Cummings COVID scandal showing Boris Johnson as the British Trump?
The details of the story about Dominic Cummings travelling in breach of the government’s coronavirus rules matter because it might have a material impact on people’s behaviour and the attempts to...
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Platforms, publishers and the public: a rocky relationship
The Tow Center’s latest report on US journalism publishers and the tech company platforms is an excellent update on a rocky relationship. The headline suggests a ‘new era’ but the detail in the report...
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What does BBC journalism mean for the rest of the world?
The BBC is a ‘global brand’. Its journalism and other programmes reach people around the world. But what do they think of its coverage, its editorial values and its role in fighting misinformation?...
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7 things to consider before adopting AI in your news organisation: A training...
Artificial intelligence plays a significant role in journalism already. It has the potential for wide-ranging and profound influence on how journalism is made and consumed. But many media organisations...
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How can Labour move on from blaming the media for its defeat?
Are Labour right to blame the media for their defeat? No-one is saying it is the whole story, but it is continually being cited as a key factor. How legitimate is that complaint and, more importantly,...
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New research report: How can new audio technologies build trust and engagement?
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE This article is by Polis Visiting Research Fellow Ville Kinnunen of Finnish broadcaster Yle Voice technologies are changing the way we use machines to access information. We...
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The future of journalism post-COVID19: technology, diversity and collaboration
What is the future of news after Covid-19? How will new technologies such as AI change our journalism? How will forces for social change such as BLM impact on that process? Polis director Charlie...
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What should be done to help UK news media survive and thrive? The LSE Truth,...
In 2018 the LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission reported on ways to tackle the information crisis. It stressed that any response needs to be strategic, dealing with the overall information...
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Platforms, publishers and the public: a rocky relationship
The Tow Center’s latest report on US journalism publishers and the tech company platforms is an excellent update on a rocky relationship. The headline suggests a ‘new era’ but the detail in the report...
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Journalism, power and pandemic: how effectively are new organisations...
Have news organisations done a good job of covering COVID-19? As research from the Reuters Institute at Oxford shows, there are those who believe that journalists aren’t holding government to account...
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