AI is coming for these jobs in newsrooms
AI is disrupting several industries. The power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has empowered tools like ChatGPT and Bard to communicate with humans efficiently. And this has led to a question that is very critical to the already financially constrained news...
Newsletters have taken the U.S. by storm, but the rest of the world is still hesitant
Ease of use, platform independence and unique content make newsletters immensely popular in the United States. American media organizations praise them for fueling engagement with their audience. But the popularity of newsletters is actually declining in the United...
My late night conversation with ChatGPT
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....
Newsletters: What can Pakistani newsrooms learn from American news outlets
“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...
Does ‘trust’ really matter for news?
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...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
@worldpressinst
In @finnowl's first #WPIFellowship blog post, he wonders if the defamation case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems will drag down other media, too. Minnesota academics and journalists weigh in:
https://worldpressinstitute.org/will-the-landmark-case-against-fox-news-drag-down-other-media-too/
Check out my latest @GlobalMinnesota podcast episode w/ @Fawzeyah & @SaqibTanveer of this year's @worldpressinst International Fellows! Hear about the challenges of conducting journalism and speaking truth to power in Nigeria and Pakistan.
https://www.globalminnesota.org/event/podcast-episode-global-journalism-with-world-press-institute-fellows/