Journalism has been entangled in successive phases of digitalization and datafication, navigating major transformations from the rise of social media to the current moment of generative AI pervasiveness. Throughout this process, the field has benefited directly from digital innovation while simultaneously being forced to contend with increasingly complex scenarios, deepening power imbalances, and a progressive erosion of its central role in society.
Generative AI, with its epistemic capacities, can be understood as the most powerful accelerator of these dynamics to date, once again reshaping how news is produced, performed, and distributed, while for the first time confronting journalists with technological actors capable of generating content that mimics human language at scale.
How can journalism navigate this conjuncture and respond to these new pressures while maintaining audience trust and loyalty to its own mission, at a moment when access to reliable, trustworthy, and diverse news has never been more important? We will discuss these issues with Roger de Weck, a journalist and media manager with extensive experience in the European and Swiss news industry, both from the perspective of editorial leadership and reporting.
Der Kurs findet auf Englisch statt.
