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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

10:00 – 10:30 

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

10:30 – 11:00

Charlie Beckett (Director of Polis and the Polis/LSE JournalismAI project)

„AI and the challenge to journalism“

MORNING SESSION

11:00-12:00

Chair: Filip Láb (Charles University, Prague)

11:00 – 11:20

Samuel Danzon-Chambaud, Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University)

“A systematic review of automated journalism scholarship: guidelines and suggestions for future research”

11:20 – 11:40 

Kenza Lamot (University of Antwerp)

“What the metrics say. Online news popularity on the web and social media pages of mainstream media outlets“

11:40 – 12:00 

Joana Rodrigues da Silva (University of Porto)

 “Connect the dots: automation in investigative journalism workflow”

 

LUNCH BREAK

12:00 – 13:00

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2

13:00 – 13:30

Sebastian Garcia (Czech Technical University, Prague; AVAST)

“Computational Propaganda, the mother of modern misinformation. An exploration on understanding and detecting it”

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 3

13:30 – 14:00

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

14:00-16:00

Chair: Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Charles University, Prague)

14:00 – 14:20 

Jannick Kirk Sørensen (Aalborg University)

“The Data Logic of Public Service Media Publishing – Concerns and Approaches when Implementing Recommender Systems for Public Service Media“

14:40 – 15:00 

Jiří Špaček (Czech Radio)

“Czech Radio on the Road to the AI Future”

15:20 – 15:40

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”

15:40 – 16:00 

Radek Mařík, Václav Moravec (Czech Technical University, Prague and Charles University, Prague)

“Building Czech AI Journalist – Prerequisites”

BREAK

16:00 – 16:30

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 4

16:30 – 17:00

Neil Thurman (LMU Munich)

“Online News Video: What Viewers Demand and Automation Supplies”

EVENING SESSION

17:00-18:00

Chair: Luboš Král (Czech Technical University, Prague)

17:00 – 17:20 

Sebastian Garcia, Elnaz Babayeva (Czech Technical University, Prague; AVAST)

“AI for detecting Computational Propaganda Campaigns on the Internet”

17:20 – 17:40 

Lei Shi (Shanghai International Studies University)

“From “Class Conflict” to “Class Identity”: A Study of Narrative Rhetoric of Fake News on Chinese New Media Based on Burke’s Identification Theory”

17:40 – 18:00

Tomáš Trnka, Dan Martinec, Jakub Sanojca (AVAST)

“Avast’s approach to fake news”