NewsTECHForum: Scenes From A Gen AI-Enabled Newsroom
By TVN Staff on November 7, 2024Generative AI has already begun to reshape the news industry — from the power it offers newsrooms to accelerate newsgathering, production and distribution to the threats it poses via disseminating dis- and misinformation and to cybersecurity and data protection.
Four news industry leaders — a news executive, technologist, cybersecurity expert and news ethicist — will examine a trio of gen AI scenarios already turning up in newsrooms in a workshop-style panel, Scenes from a Gen-AI Enabled Newsroom, co-presented by RTDNA at TVNewsCheck’s 11th annual NewsTECHForum conference on Dec. 17 at the New York Hilton.
Paul Capizzi, CIO and SVP of enterprise technology, Fox Corp., Fox News and Fox Television Stations; Gina Chua, executive editor, Semafor; Aimee Rhinehart, senior product manager, AI Strategy, AP; and Kyle Plantz, senior program manager, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, will join moderator Michael Depp, editor of TVNewsCheck, for the session.
“This panel is an extraordinary opportunity to bring together four leaders from wholly different news organizations and vantage points and unpack their thinking on critical gen AI-oriented scenarios already beginning to impact newsrooms,” Depp said. “We’ll present situations involving content versioning and AI-assisted news content creation; gen AI’s weaponization to propagate disinformation; and the prospective use of AI avatars and synthetic anchors for video and audio content.
“This will be a chance for attendees to calibrate their own gen AI news protocols with our experts in a rare cross-industry conversation,” Depp noted. “There will be plenty to bring back to their own company-wide AI working groups and tasks forces out of this discussion.”
NewsTECHForum is co-located with the Sports Video Group Summit. Its 2024 sessions include:
Keynote Interview: (Re)Introducing the BBC — As part of the BBC’s strategy to expand its reach and relevancy among digital audiences outside the U.K., BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the UK’s venerable public service broadcaster, recently re-launched its international news website and app. Jennie Baird, chief product officer of BBC Studios and board chair of the nonprofit Ethical Tech Project, was one of the key architects behind these new digital services. In this NewsTECHForum keynote interview, Baird will discuss the thinking that helped unlock the brand’s multiplatform potential, as well as broader industry challenges facing publishers and broadcasters in an increasingly digital age.
Rewiring Tomorrow’s Newsroom Today — How can a modern newsroom be seamlessly connected to all distribution points, incorporating AI for vital efficiencies in content production and versioning? How can people be better organized with systemic connection points across the organization, especially when multiple platforms (e.g., broadcast or cable networks, streaming channels and digital platforms) are involved? How can duplication be avoided in reporting efforts and production?
Rebooting the Digital Product Suite — Organizations are taking a top-to-bottom look and reassessment of their products across digital platforms from their homepages to news and weather apps and more. What are the major changes coming to UX and UI based on consumers’ changing habits? Who is working on the forefront of change there, and what does it look like? What technologies are involved?
Streaming and FAST News 3.0 — How are news organizations tackling challenges in content strategy, product development and news workflow on their AVOD and FAST channels? How are innovators expanding the content pipeline, fine-tuning the product and simplifying workflows?
