Polis

My prediction (or rather hope) for 2024 is that journalists will realise that ‘trust’ is a useless metric of their work. Ok, I am kidding. I have no expectation that the news media will cease...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/12/20/the-obsession-with-trust-must-end/

Human behaviour is very much driven by emotion. So it follows that emotions also influence our media consumption – such as in how we decide what we want to watch on video streaming platforms. T...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/11/27/what-are-you-in-the-mood-for-new-research-report-on-sentiment-in-streaming-services/

This paper examines the impact of technological and digital advances on photojournalism. Through a series of in-depth interviews it seeks to discover how today’s changing media environment aff...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/11/11/bearing-witness-in-the-digital-age-a-new-polis-newsroom-fellowship-paper/

We are delighted to publish a new research article by Alyssa Zeisler. “The Great Audience Experiment” provides an historical perspective on the collection and use of audience data across Amer...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/07/24/the-great-audience-experiment-a-research-synthesis-and-agenda/

The current crossroad of journalism in the face of Artificial Intelligence generates a certain deja vu. Perhaps the scenario from which we can learn the most is the emergence of journalism in the...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/06/26/will-there-soon-be-real-ai-media-and-ai-journalists-reflecting-and-acting-in-response-to-new-technological-gaps/

Over the last few months, newsrooms and media organisations from around the world have been completing the second iteration of our JournalismAI survey. We conducted the first one in 2019 and publ...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/06/26/how-newsrooms-around-the-world-use-ai-a-journalismai-2023-global-survey/

When we created JournalismAI, we looked around for similar initiatives around the world. However, there were only a few individuals and organisations working in this space, such as the Quartz AI ...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/06/20/ai-and-journalism-initiatives-around-the-world/

The 2023 JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms is about to kick-off! We are thrilled to launch the third edition of this programme aimed at tackling the inequalities and equipping small newsro...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/06/06/introducing-the-2023-journalismai-academy-emea-and-apac-cohorts/

We are thrilled to announce the 2023 cohort of the JournalismAI Fellowship programme, conducted with the support of the Google News Initiative. We’ve selected 32 journalists and technologists f...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/06/01/meet-the-2023-journalismai-fellowship-cohort/

With artificial intelligence having its moment in the spotlight, largely thanks to the fast-changing development of generative AI, we will be working on behalf of journalists around the world to ...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2023/04/20/journalismai-5-0-in-2023-and-beyond/