Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: moral injury and the mental health challenges faced by those reporting on conflict, trauma, and crisis. Featuring:

Antony Feinstein – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFKYuqNHxQ

Script and editing: Caithlin Mercer

Music by Patiño

Music by Patiño

Full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series"

Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: how AI and disinformation have become intertwined, and what that means for journalists battling fake news. Featuring:

Peter Pomerantsev: – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp9DRz4NGI

Dima Saber- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oOOk3b5sw4

Script and editing: Caithlin Mercer

Music by Patiño

Full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series""

Full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series"

Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: one of journalism’s most enduring challenges - navigating ethics when covering sensitive stories. Featuring:

Connie Walker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqN6utz8iE4&t=2785s

Anas Aremeyaw Anas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPXpVaH_TM&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=27

Script and editing: Caithlin Mercer

Music by Patiño

Full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series"

Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: how AI is revolutionising newsrooms and opening up new possibilities for journalism. Featuring:

Bahareh Heravi – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mqXG5y6ENA&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=5&t=7s

Dima Saber - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oOOk3b5sw4&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=3

Hilke Schellmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeLXJgX9SvY&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=14&t=3s

Script and editing: Caithlin Mercer

Music by Patiño

Full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series"

Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: covering the climate crisis, with a focus on how local stories can shape global conversations on this crucial topic. Featuring:

Friederike Otto – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cw7DsPn7xY&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=25&t=432s

Wanjira Mathai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnoAhqHSMSc&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=10&t=90s

Host, script and editing: Caithlin Mercer

Music by Patiño

Find a full transcript on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series

Bite-sized insights from Reuters Institute’s fellowship seminars: what can we learn from experts in Indonesia, South Africa and Argentina about political coverage in times of democratic regression? Featuring:

Sana Jaffrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8770X9hRZlU

Adriaan Basson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd77JBQdFSs&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=7

Hugo Alconada Mon- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6br50jKXVso&list=PLMctYaT2KOgtahBzm5SUSJqiX_nTLpGtU&index=9

You can find a full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowship-takeaways-podcast-series

Broadcast radio is facing an existential question: can it survive in the digital era, when young audiences don’t know what FM and AM mean? Tech company Futuri Media says they can revitalize local radio using AI. Tech company Futuri Media says they’ve created a tool that can do everything local radio does via AI including local news, interviews, music, and weather and traffic reports. For the final episode of our series on AI and the Future of Audio, host Gretel Kahn speaks with the CEO of Futuri Media, Daniel Anstandig.

Read a transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/it-possible-build-local-radio-station-powered-ai-tech-ceo-says-so

How do you best integrate AI in your news strategy as a public service broadcasting organisation? That is a question that Swedish Radio has been pondering and tackling first hand for the past year. Swedish broadcasting organization, Swedish Radio, has been a pioneer when it comes to innovation in the audio space with AI as they have been reshaping audio news production and curation teams for the age of artificial intelligence since before the mass interest in the technology. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with spoke with Olle Zachrison, Head of Artificial Intelligence and News Strategy at Swedish Radio, on how they embrace the technology without succumbing to the hype.

Read a transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-swedish-radio-balances-journalism-and-ai-without-succumbing-hype

Mexican news organisation 'Grupo Fórmula' has created an AI news anchor to attract younger audiences. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with Oswaldo Aguilar Castro, Director of Technology and AI Infrastructure. An AI news presenter named NAT is one of several synthetic news anchors created by Mexican broadcasting group Grupo Fórmula to attract younger audiences. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with Oswaldo Aguilar Castro, Director of Technology and AI Infrastructure at Grupo Fórmula, on how they trained NAT, feedback from audiences and whether she poses a challenge to human news anchors.

Read a transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/meet-nat-ai-generated-presenter-offering-soft-news-mexican-audiences

On April 27 2023, artificial intelligence took over a radio station in francophone Switzerland, the voices were AI clones of their real hosts, everything they said were scripts generated by AI, and even the music played was aggregated and composed by AI. On April 27 2023, artificial intelligence completely took over the Couleur 3 radio station in Switzerland. The voices were AI clones of their real hosts, everything they said were scripts generated by AI, and even the music played was aggregated and composed by AI. Host Gretel Kahn spoke with the station’s head, Antoine Multone.

Transcript: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/day-ai-clones-took-over-swiss-radio-station