The Financial Times has consistently been at the forefront of digital publishing. With the emergence of AI we’ve been keen to explore how it may assist with the presentation of our journalism to rea...
Narratives about gen AI are largely shaped by Western perspectives while the impact of the tech across the world mostly revolves around the basic local issues — health, education, and the economy. S...
What does it take to stand on the front line of the fight for press freedom? What has evolved over the last decades, and what painful realities persist? At a cornerstone moment for global media freedo...
Whether we see it or not, our governments, doctors, schools, and employers have used AI and other predictive technologies for years to make policy decisions, understand disease, teach our children, or...
As the integration of (generative) AI technologies into news organisations continues apace, the need for robust, transparent, and consistent evaluation frameworks has become increasingly pressing. Whi...
The weaponisation of nostalgia is a pernicious trend infecting democratic deliberation and affecting the outcome of elections around the world. ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation project has tracked thi...
Making satellite imagery accessible for independent journalists and small newsrooms
This session has been cancelled due to speaker unavailability. We apologise for any inconvenience. Once the domain of governments and scientists, the use of satellite imagery has become increasingl...
Deceptive AI video: what to know about creation, usage, guardrails and regulation
2025 is the year of widespread generative AI video. Six months after the wider launch of OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo 2, and as the ability to create, edit and use generative AI video grows in r...
As artificial intelligence reshapes the media landscape, newsrooms face both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. How can product methodologies serve as a framework to ensure that A...
Breaking the silence: the journalists working in secret to tell the stories of Afghanistan’s women and girls. An interview with Zahra Joya
The increasing restrictions on women in Afghanistan is forcing women journalists to take extraordinary risks to their own safety to tell the stories of their fellow women and girls living under the op...