Podcast Episodes

Mattia Peretti: Balancing AI Innovation with Journalistic Integrity

Episode 49

Mattia Peretti, former manager of Journalism AI at the London School of Economics and current Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists, joins host Nikita Roy to share insights on bal…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Florent Daudens: Building an AI-Literate Newsroom at Radio Canada

Episode 48

Florent Daudens, the outgoing Director of Newsgathering and Deployment at Canada's National Public Broadcaster, Radio-Canada, joins Nikita Roy to share how he led AI literacy initiatives in their new…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Ezra Eeman: Navigating the AI Frontier at the Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO

Episode 47

Ezra Eeman, the Director of Strategy & Innovation at the Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO joins Nikita Roy to discuss NPO's AI strategy, revealing the complexities of navigating this frontier within a de…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Craig Newmark: Philanthropy's Role in Supporting Journalism in the AI Era

Episode 46

Craig Newmark, internet pioneer and founder of Craigslist, joins Nikita Roy to talk about the past, present, and future of AI. 

Craig is a visionary whose profound contributions have shaped the landsc…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

How Germany’s Ippen Digital is Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Their Newsroom

Episode 45

From fine-tuning large language models, to discussing modular journalism, to developing an AI tool to help track misinformation, there’s a lot to unpack from this week’s conversation with Alessandro …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Alessandro Alviani (Part One): Building AI Products with an Editor-Centric Approach

Episode 44

Rather than AI replacing journalists, Alessandro Alviani believes editorial teams can leverage AI to enhance and augment their work. 

Formerly as the Editorial Director at the Microsoft News Hub, Ales…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Jeff Jarvis (Part Two): Rethinking the journalism business model in the age of AI

Episode 43

Jeff Jarvis joins Nikita Roy in the second part of his conversation to discuss how journalism business models will be affected by the rise of generative AI.

In part one, Jarvis shared his thoughts on …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Jeff Jarvis (Part One): Should AI have the ‘right to read’ news like humans do?

Episode 42

Jeff Jarvis joins Nikita Roy to discuss whether AI companies should be allowed to use news media's copyrighted content to train their models. 

Jarvis is a veteran journalist and professor who recently…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Aliya Itzkowitz and Sam Gould (Part Two): Potential of Multimodal AI and Autonomous AI Agents in Publishing

Episode 41

Aliya Itzkowitz and Sam Gould from FT Strategies join Nikita Roy to discuss the capabilities of multimodal AI and AI agents within the publishing industry. Discover further insights and practical exa…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Aliya Itzkowitz & Sam Gould (Part One): Insights from FT Strategies' AI Design Sprint Day

Episode 40

Aliya Itzkowitz and Sam Gould from FT Strategies join Nikita Roy to discuss their AI Design Sprint that they used to help nearly 20 publishers identify and validate potential AI opportunities. 

Aliya …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago