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The 2024 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival will gather leading journalists, editors, and publishers from around the world in Sarajevo from May 22 to 24, 2024. Under the theme “Navigating Crises: Journalism at a Turning Point”, this event will provide a vital space for media professionals, thought leaders, and innovators to explore new solutions, foster understanding, and critically examine the role of the media in addressing the great crises of our time.

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Organized by the International Press Institute (IPI).
Thursday, May 23 • 15:45 - 17:00
AI's impact on journalism: Evaluating risks and opportunities

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As the buzz around AI and journalism continues to grow, this panel introduce and interrogate everyday opportunities and big picture strategies for bringing AI to your media organization. Rappler, Associated Press, JournalismAI and other industry leaders will talk you through their strategies (and skepticisms) to adopting AI tools to enhance operations, optimize storytelling, and fortify their business—from chat bots and newsgathering and distribution to partnerships and revenue opportunities.
Moderators
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Lena Beate Hamborg Pedersen

Senior Product Manager, Schibsted
Lena Beate Hamborg Pedersen works as a senior product manager at the national Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. For the last two and a half years she has led experiments using AI to translate news articles into several languages, and developed a Norwegian cloned voice reading the news... Read More →
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Tshepo Tshabalala

Project Manager & Team Lead, JournalismAI
Tshepo Tshabalala is the Manager of JournalismAI, a research and training project run by Polis – the international journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science – in collaboration with the Google News Initiative. Prior to joining Polis, Tshepo worked... Read More →

Speakers
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Espen Egil Hansen

Chairman of the Board, Factiverse
Norwegian newspaper editor and publisher. Currently, he serves as international advisor at JP/Politikens Hus. From 2013 until 2019, he was editor-in-chief and CEO of Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten. Prior to that, he served as editor-in-chief and managing editor at VG Nett... Read More →
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Don Kevin Hapal

Head of Data and Innovation, Rappler
Don Kevin Hapal is Rappler’s Head of Data and Innovation. He started at Rappler as a digital communications specialist, then went on to lead Rappler’s Balikbayan section for overseas Filipinos. He was introduced to data journalism while writing and researching about social media... Read More →
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Ron Nixon

Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships, Associated Press
Ron Nixon is AP’s Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships. Nixon received the inaugural 2021 News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association. He has overseen investigations that have won a number of awards including, the 2023... Read More →
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Amandas Ong

Journalist
Amandas Ong is a London-based journalist who has reported from Mexico, Turkey, Rwanda, the occupied West Bank and Ukraine. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Slate, VICE and others. She is a National Geographic grantee, and... Read More →

Thursday May 23, 2024 15:45 - 17:00 CEST
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