Charlie Beckett
director Polis London School of Economics
Nicholas Diakopoulos
director Computational Journalism Lab Northwestern Univ.
From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos, author of the book Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Charlie Beckett, author of the report New powers, new responsibilities. A global survey of journalism and artificial intelligence (Polis, 2019), will discuss the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm.