Alessandro Alviani is the Lead for Generative AI at Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien, the digital publishing division of Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung. With a background in journalism and product development, his work focuses on building and evaluating AI-driven products, tools, and experiences for readers, editors, and other business stakeholders. He previously served as Product Lead for AI at Ippen Digital and was the Editorial Director for Microsoft News in Berlin. Before that, he was Germany correspondent for the Italian newspaper La Stampa. He has been closely following the intersection of AI and media since 2020. As a 2022 JournalismAI fellow, he helped develop a tool and methodology to support journalists identify and track manipulated narratives from state-controlled media. He is based in Munich.

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