Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, his dismantling of its content moderation processes, his frequent vilification of legacy media and his use of the platform to support Donald Trump in the US presi...
Shuwei Fang
Shuwei Fang is a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. As Associate Director, Programs at Open Society Foundations, she led the AI in Journalism Futures project, one of the first significant global attempts to understand how the long term impact of AI might reshape the information ecosystem. At Open Society, Shuwei has spent over a decade advancing the field of civic media and information technology via grants and hybrid investments. Previously, she has held various roles across technology, media and telecoms investment, as well as in startups.
Events IJF 2025
This workshop will present preliminary results from a large-scale, formal study of the possible ways in which new functionality from AI and Large Language Models might fundamentally reshape the entire...
This panel discussion will review practical lessons from AIJC – an accelerator programme in which 12 newsrooms from around the world developed pragmatic generative AI applications between July and N...
The last two years have seen moves by governments and foundations around the world to support quality journalism as well as new data that gives insights into how digital native outlets survive and thr...
It's time to make independent journalism "pop". Canaries is a movement to build broad support for independent journalism in the digital age, which starts by showcasing the work of bold media startups ...
Foundation funding confidential: why the foundations do it, how they do it, and what “success” looks like
For most editors and newsrooms, the thought of asking for money to support editorial priorities is a highly daunting prospect. How do you match foundation support and real editorial priorities? Once y...
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