Four figures from technology, journalism and academia join the Reuters Institute as Visiting Fellows in January 2026

Four respected figures with senior experience in technology, journalism and academia are joining the Reuters Institute as Visiting Fellows in January 2026. They will engage with our researchers and Journalist Fellows, and work on a key issue facing the news industry today. 

These new Visiting Fellows will join Colette Brin, a Professor at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada and the Director of Centre d’études sur les médias (CEM), who's been a Visiting Fellow with us since September 2025. 

Colette is working on AI initiatives in public service media, as well as youth engagement with news. Her new colleagues will bring insights from decades spent working in journalism and academia, on issues including digital platforms, media funding, public service broadcasting, politics and international affairs. Read more about them and their projects below.

Madhav Chinnappa

Madhav is a senior executive consultant who has worked globally at the intersection of news, technology, sustainability and most recently AI for more than two decades in both the commercial and public interest sectors. He is currently advising Human Native AI, an AI data startup, and is also a Board Member of the Future Insights Board of Mediahuis, the Belgian multinational media group. Prior to that, he was Director of News Ecosystem Development at Google.

At the Institute, Madhav will explore the relationship between foundation models and news publishers in the era of generative AI.

Adrian Hadland

Adrian is an award-winning political journalist based largely in southern Africa who now works as an academic. He has published 25 books, including monographs, biographies and a few children’s books as well as more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and reports. He is currently Chair for Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Adrian will undertake a project on journalism in conflict.

Liliane Landor

Liliane served as Senior Controller of BBC News International Services and Director of the BBC World Service from September 2021 to August 2024. She re-joined the BBC from Channel 4 News, where she was Head of Foreign News, responsible for award-winning, high-impact international journalism.

For her project, Liliane will explore questions around impartiality in news.

Agnes Stenbom

Agnes Stenbom Swedling is the founder of the foresight lab IN/LAB at Schibsted and an industrial PhD candidate in AI journalism at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She also serves as a board member of the Tinius Trust and is a co-founder of the Nordic AI Journalism network, including the Nordic AI in Media Summit (NAMS). Previously, Agnes led Schibsted’s AI risk mitigation efforts, co-led the group's AI strategy, and was a founding member of its AI enablement team. Her work has been recognised with several awards.

During her time at the institute, Agnes will be working on her doctoral dissertation focused on the hybridisation of human and AI capabilities in editorial workflows.