What does an LLM search inventor and scientist know that journalists do not? As artificial intelligence transforms how information is created, distributed, and consumed, newsrooms face fundamental que...
Astrid Maier
Astrid Maier is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of dpa, Germany’s largest news agency, and Head of Strategy. Astrid was born in Suceava (Romania). After graduating in China Studies in Cologne and Beijing, she started her career in journalism as a trainee and later telecoms correspondent for the Financial Times Germany before becoming the technology correspondent for Manager Magazin, a business monthly. Her positions have also included Head of Companies & Markets Desk of German business weekly Wirtschaftswoche before becoming the Editor-in-Chief of the professional network Xing in 2019 and also being a member of the Executive Board. From 2015 to 2016, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in California.
Events IJF 2025
How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
The past decades in the media industry have been characterized by cost-cutting, efficiency programs and pressure to transform. The rapid development of generative AI is currently accelerating these tr...
How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
The COVID-19 crisis has prompted radical and accelerated thinking about the purpose of work. It also forces us to ask what good newsroom leadership looks like beyond managing hybrid meetings. Because ...
The #metoo moment forces us to ask: how do we shape newsrooms to empower women in journalism to shatter the glass ceiling. As the number of women in journalism climbs around the world we have to move ...
From mass media to social media; the internet has redefined the relationship between journalists and audiences. How do we (re)design journalism for that world? Using human-centered design, we’ll st...
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