Digital Deep Dives
Our series of Digital Deep Dives team journalists with world-leading academics to combine academic expertise with the global reach of reporters and editors, connect them with cutting-edge resources and knowledge, provide them with global support networks and prepare them for the fundamental challenges facing the industry. The sessions are free to attend but we do ask participants to commit to participating for the entirety of the event.
Applications for these events are now closed.
In a year where AI is constantly in the news in so many different areas, journalists need access to the latest research on this pressing topic. These online Digital Deep Dives, which we do in partnership with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, involve presentations and discussions covering how AI is used on news, how it is covered by the news media, what AI means for the future of work, and the issues AI raises around bias, diversity and fairness.
The events are designed to be interactive and participants will have plenty of time to ask questions and to discuss the issues raised. Our programme will feature:
- Sandra Wachter is Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she researches the legal and ethical implications of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet and platform regulation. Her current research focuses on profiling, inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, diversity, and fairness, as well as governmental surveillance, predictive policing, human rights online, and health tech and medical law.
- Michael A. Osborne is Professor of Machine Learning and an expert in the development of machine intelligence in sympathy with societal needs. His work on robust and scalable inference algorithms in Machine Learning has been successfully applied in diverse and challenging contexts, from aiding the detection of planets in distant solar systems to enabling self-driving cars to determine when their maps may have changed due to roadworks. Dr Osborne also has deep interests in the broader societal consequences of machine learning and robotics, and has analysed how intelligent algorithms might soon substitute for human workers.
- Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. His research is focused on the changing role of news and media in our societies. He has written extensively about journalism, digital media, the business of news, political communication, misinformation and related topics in dozens of scholarly articles, edited volumes and books.
- Mitali Mukherjee is the Director of the Reuters Institute’s Journalist Programmes and a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. She was a Chevening fellow for the South Asia Journalism Fellowship 2020. In 2020, she was nominated for the prestigious Red Ink Awards in India for two of her business stories. Over the course of her career, she has been Consulting Business Editor at The Wire and Mint, a Markets Editor at CNBC TV 18 and Prime Time Anchor at TV Today and Doordarshan.
Who should apply? These sessions are designed for working journalists (freelance or full-time) whose work will be enhanced by access to the experts above.
What's involved? The Deep Dive takes place via Zoom at 13:00-16:30 (UK time) on two separate dates: Thursday 2 May and Friday 7 June. Participants will join the programme on one of the dates.
Applications for these events are now closed.
Speakers:
- Jonathan Corpus Ong, Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
- Sumitra Badrinathan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Governance & Economics at American University.
- Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford.
Speakers:
- Dr David Kaye, former UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
- Dr Natali Helberger, a Professor of Information Law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.
- Mishi Choudhary, technology lawyer and an online civil liberties activist
- Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
Speakers:
- Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
- Friederike Otto, Associate Director, Environmental Change Institute
- Dr Lisa Schipper, Environmental Social Science Research Fellow at The Environmental Change Institute
Speakers:
- Vicki Nash, Director, Oxford Internet Institute.
- Alan Rusbridger, Chair, Reuters Institute.
- Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute.
- Meera Selva, Deputy Director, Reuters Institute.
Speakers:
- Wolfgang Blau, Visiting Fellow, Reuters Institute and former President, International and Chief Operating Officer, Condé Nast
- Friederike Otto, Associate Director, Environmental Change Institute
- Sir Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy
- Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
- Meera Selva, Deputy Director, Reuters Institute
Speakers:
- Gina Neff, Professor of Technology & Society, Oxford Internet Institute
- Michael Osborne, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering Science
- Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
- Meera Selva, Deputy Director, Reuters Institute
Speakers:
- Peter Drobac, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School
- Denise Lievesley, Former Principal, Green Templeton College; Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Public Policy and Professor of Social Statistics at King’s College London
- Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
- Meera Selva, Deputy Director, Reuters Institute