The Second Draft Alumni Lab: Getting AI Right: How Journalists Can Navigate the Ethical Quandaries led by Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center, and Margaret Sullivan, director of the Newmark Center
CJS is excited to announce the launch of the Second Draft Alumni Lab!
Starting in April, this exclusive series of 60-minute online workshops will equip you with the latest AI tools and techniques to enhance your storytelling.
What to Expect:
- Expert Insights: Learn from industry leaders and AI experts.
- Hands-on Training: Get practical experience with AI tools.
- Q&A Sessions: Ask questions and engage with fellow alumni.
- Global Accessibility: Zoom Webinar, noon EDT
Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and future-proof your journalism career.
April 23, 2024 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
Newsrooms of all sizes and individual journalists are grappling with the advent of AI, and its implications for their work. From chatbots to translations to sorting through huge data sets, AI is already a fixture in journalism, and possibilities for its future use are virtually limitless. Yet it also accelerates the threats of disinformation and makes it harder for audiences to tell what is authentic and what is manipulated. Generative AI poses ethical issues for every business, which adopts the technology, and more for journalism than many fields. Transparency, accuracy, bias, and energy use are just at the tip of the ethical iceberg. Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center and Margaret Sullivan, director of the Newmark Center, will discuss the promise and the perils of these new tools and provide guidelines to practitioners.
Emily Bell is the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, a leading research center on the intersection of technology and journalism.
Previously, she was a senior editor at Guardian News and Media, where she pioneered digital journalism initiatives.
Bell is co-author of "Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present." She serves on the boards of the Scott Trust and Columbia Journalism Review, and has advised leading media organizations worldwide.
Margaret Sullivan is the Executive Director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School, where she also previously taught. She is a weekly columnist for the Guardian US, focusing on media, politics, and culture.
Sullivan previously served as a columnist for The Washington Post and Public Editor of The New York Times. She also held leadership roles at The Buffalo News.
She is the author of two books: "Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy" and "Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-stained Life."
Register here.
For questions, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at [email protected].