AI is helping to enable automated content creation, enabling journalists to focus on deep analysis audiences to explore new types of personalisation. However, concerns exist around trust, ethics and disinformation, and partnerships between newsrooms and AI companies are posing difficult questions.
Charlie Beckett is the director of the LSE Journalism and AI project. He is a professor at the LSE Department of Media and Communications and founding director of Polis, the LSE's international journalism think-tank. Before joining LSE, he was an award-winning filmmaker and editor at the BBC and ITN.
Louise Story is a seasoned media leader and journalist known for her contributions to news companies' growth and impactful storytelling. Louise has diverse experience in media, including roles as an editor, technologist, filmmaker, manager of large projects, strategist, investigative reporter, and more. She also teaches at Yale University and provides consulting for media leaders on content, product, technology, and AI strategy. Louise was previously Chief News Strategist and Chief Product & Technology Officer at The Wall Street Journal, playing a pivotal role in advancing digital transformation, overseeing news strategy, and managing product teams, significantly contributing to the Journal's growth in audiences and subscribers.
Johannes Klingebiel is a designer and researcher currently working as a program manager for Media Lab Bayern in Bavaria, Germany. Before that, he worked for five years in the innovation team at the German national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Sabrina Faramarzi is an international journalist, trend analyst, and data storyteller. Her work explores patterns across sociocultural phenomena through a future-focused lens, with an interest in new media development and storytelling innovations. Faramarzi has worked and written for publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue Business, Wired, and VICE, and has helped brands such as Google, Meta, Airbnb, Lush, Tempur, Regus, and GSK to create relevant content for their audiences. She founded Dust in Translation, a boutique creative storytelling agency helping organisations build and produce innovative, data-driven content and communications strategies.