AI, ethics and editorial power: voices from the IQ Media Conference

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Last week, we were in sunny Athens attending the IQ Media Conference, hearing all about what the future of digital journalism holds for us.

No surprises here - a prominent theme was AI: how it is reshaping how stories are found, whom they reach, and even what we think journalism is. And in this week's episode, we have all those highlights and takeaways for you.

You will be hearing from a number of newsroom leaders, AI experts, academics, and media strategists:

• David Caswell, founder, Storyflow
• Jonathan Soma, professor, Columbia School of Journalism
• Robin Booth, managing director, emap
• Lefteris Bidelas, managing editor, Kathimerini
• Jody Doherty-Cove, head of AI, Newsquest
• George Saliaris-Fasseas, general director, Alter Ego
• Bahareh Heravi, BRAID fellow, BBC
• Verica Rupar, professor of journalism, Media Diversity Institute
• Alfred Hermida, journalism professor, Columbia School of Journalism
• Olaf Steenfadt, founder and managing director, Global Media Directory
• Giannis Dimitrellos, editor-in-chief, reader.gr
• Aliya Itzkowitz, manager, FT Strategies
• Emilios Perdikaris, chairman of the board, Athens Macedonian News Agency

Can AI free journalists to do better work? Will it deepen inequalities? And what happens when the line between human and machine-generated content starts to blur?

AI can help us work faster and smarter than ever before. But a core lesson from the event is this: journalism’s true value is what generative AI cannot do.

We used an AI transcription tool, Good Tape, and generative AI's Gemini and ChatGPT, to help draft this podcast before a human edited the show.

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