[News] More AI-powered News is Coming, Like it or Not

The Reporter is building a tool to better understand and nurture long-term donor relationships in a low-data, long-form journalism environment. Instead of classic “big data” recommendation engines, the tool aggregates sparse signals from reading behaviour, story topics, donations, newsletters, and social media to map how “invisible readers” quietly engage before choosing to give, and how […]

Netsafe Chief Executive Brent Carey says online safety is no longer an issue that belongs to one organisation or one generation.

Award‑winning Italian data journalist Jacopo Ottaviani recounts how he used generative AI to remake two of his seminal data‑visualisation projects in days rather than weeks. The 2012 prison‑death map “Patrie Galere,” originally assembled with BatchGeo, Open Refine and other ad‑hoc tools, was rebuilt in two days with Claude Opus and Sonnet, yielding an open‑source LeafletJS […]

Autonomous AI agents capable of writing and submitting grant applications without human involvement represent a fundamental threat to the integrity of research funding, according to experts speaking at a webinar organised by the League of European Research Universities. Geraint Rees, vice provost for research, innovation and global engagement at UCL, drew a sharp distinction between […]