by Tarek KAI | Apr 29, 2023 | Changes in Journalism, Cutting Edge Journalistic Technology, Journalism
For the two months we have been travelling in the United States and meeting with journalists and top media executives, ChatGPT has been at the center of many discussions across media platforms. Nearly four months after it launched officially, ChatGPT is entering U.S....
by Muhammad Saqib Tanveer | Apr 28, 2023 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism, New Business Models for Journalism in the Digital Age
“3 reasons why email is dead” “It’s 2018 and email is already dead” “Meta to biz: Email is dead — long live WhatsApp” These are some of the headlines you find on different tech blogs when you search about the future of email. Back in Pakistan, we operate under...
by FEYZA GUMUSLUOGLU | Apr 28, 2023 | Journalism, Personal Reflections
The Turkish mainstream media and general population view American media as intrinsically hostile to Turkey, to its government and to its people. It’s as if The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and any other media institution is in constant search for an excuse...
by Alexander Uggla | Apr 28, 2023 | Democracy, Police & Community Tensions
The reporters, all dressed in blue, look up from their computer screens when we enter the editorial room of San Quentin News. We, the World Press Institute fellows, have left all our belongings – including mobile phones – outside of the facility to be allowed to enter...
by Tarek KAI | Apr 26, 2023 | American Presidency, Democracy, Politics
The least that can be said about Donald Trump’s U.S. foreign policy is that it was characterized by enormous upheavals. Since the first minutes of his inaugural address, President Trump pledged that “it is going to be only America First” and promised to “reinforce old...
by Julieta Nassau | Apr 24, 2023 | Democracy, Journalism
They produce a newspaper, a news website, a magazine, a newsletter, a newscast and a podcast with more than eight million downloads. I am not talking about an ordinary emerging media conglomerate in the United States. It is the Media Center of San Quentin, the oldest...
by DANILO ALVES SILVA | Apr 22, 2023 | Democracy, Journalism, WPI Activities
Are you looking for a good book to read? Check out these recommendations from some of the 2023 World Press Institute fellows, who have been traveling around the United States for nine weeks to understand the country’s diverse roots and citizens. The WPI brings...
by Piyumi Fonseka | Apr 21, 2023 | Democracy
Open stainless-steel toilets, metal framed beds and brick walls were those usually seen on countless TV shows and movies while stories of inmates serving time for multiple crimes such as murder, robbery and drug trafficking were those often read and forgotten...
by Muhammad Saqib Tanveer | Apr 21, 2023 | Changes in Journalism, Journalism, Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era
Before coming to the United States for the WPI fellowship, one of my primary concerns about journalism was the growing lack of trust in the news. It bothered me that for too many people facts were not sacred anymore and they only believed the information that...
by Julieta Nassau | Apr 21, 2023 | Cutting Edge Journalistic Technology, Democracy, Journalism
Marina Walker has a bright career as an investigative journalist from her beginnings in her native Argentina to her current position as the executive editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, based in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights of her career was...