Paul McNally is an award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur with 20 years of experience starting companies in AI, podcasting and community radio. He started Develop AI, an AI consultancy which has trained and assisted hundreds of journalists from around the world on how to create AI prototypes, build AI ethical policies and use AI tools.

He was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2016 where he focused on using tech to improve the business models of public interest media. McNally is also the founder of Develop Audio, home to the podcast Alibi and an organisation that produces audio of the highest quality with a focus on social justice, human rights and corruption. He started and ran the successful non-profit Citizen Justice Network that trained community paralegals to be radio journalists across Africa. He has won 16 awards and has worked extensively as an investigative journalist on stories involving assassinations, HIV, disinformation and wrongful convictions. He is the author of the influential book, The Street, published by Pan Macmillan, on police corruption & torture in South Africa.

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