CHALLENGES OF JOURNALISM IN 21 ST CENTURY – AUTOMATED JOURNALISM AND AI JOURNALISM SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
WELCOME REMARKS
Václav Moravec (Charles University, Prague)
Petr Konvalinka (Chairman of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic),
Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1
Charlie Beckett (Director of Polis and the Polis/LSE JournalismAI project)
„AI and the challenge to journalism“
MORNING SESSION
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud, Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University)
“A systematic review of automated journalism scholarship: guidelines and suggestions for future research”
Kenza Lamot (University of Antwerp)
“What the metrics say. Online news popularity on the web and social media pages of mainstream media outlets“
Joana Rodrigues da Silva (University of Porto)
“Connect the dots: automation in investigative journalism workflow”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2
Sebastian Garcia (Czech Technical University, Prague; AVAST)
“Computational Propaganda, the mother of modern misinformation. An exploration on understanding and detecting it”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 3
Peggy van der Kreeft (Research and Cooperation Projects / Projects & Development Deutsche Welle (DW), Bonn)
“Automation in NLP to optimize editorial workflows for international broadcasters”
AFTERNOON SESSION
Jannick Kirk Sørensen (Aalborg University)
“The Data Logic of Public Service Media Publishing – Concerns and Approaches when Implementing Recommender Systems for Public Service Media“
Jiří Špaček (Czech Radio)
“Czech Radio on the Road to the AI Future”
Alan Renwick (CEO RADAR)
“Rethinking the economics of local public interest news – Combining journalists, data and automation to make quality content affordable at a granular level”
Radek Mařík, Václav Moravec (Czech Technical University, Prague and Charles University, Prague)
“Building Czech AI Journalist – Prerequisites”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 4
Neil Thurman (LMU Munich)
“Online News Video: What Viewers Demand and Automation Supplies”