Digest | Week of October 7th, 2024 - Ethics and Journalism

Journalism scholars want to make journalism better. They’re not quite sure how.

By Jacob L. Nelson, Andrea Wenzel and Letrell Crittenden - October 4, 2024 - Nieman Lab

From academic conferences and awards focused on journalism research to the growth of applied research centers within journalism schools, there is a new push to connect journalism research with practice. But is this growth in journalism scholarship really impacting the way working journalists do their jobs?

Media leaders talk Big Tech, the AI future, and journalism

By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen - October 3, 2024 - Columbia Journalism Review

“Leading figures in the media industry met at Columbia Journalism School for a two-day event, hosted by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, focused on the role of generative AI in the newsroom.” Read their takeaways in the Columbia Journalism Review’s latest.

In Venezuela, AI news anchors aren’t replacing journalists. They’re protecting them

By Stefano Pozzebon - September 18, 2024 - CNN

In the United States, newsrooms’ adoption of generative AI has fueled concerns that real-life journalists may be pushed to the background. But in Venezuela, according to a recent story published by CNN, using AI to obscure – and thereby, protect – journalists is the goal.

Values Rising: Trends and traction in journalism and the news industry

September 3, 2024 - Poynter Institute

Poynter’s new report offers a temperature check on trust in media institutions, the state of local news, and how newsrooms are managing AI, among other major trends.

American Journalists Beware: A Second Trump Term Could Pose Very Real Risks

By Joel Simon - Vanity Fair - August 26, 2024

Simon, founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and former executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, breaks down what the threats a second Trump term could pose to journalists and press freedom.