Prague Media Point 2024: Program part focused on AI and Investigative Journalism in V4 and Western Balkans

Project co-financed by the International Visegrad Fund and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

 

Artificial intelligence has come with a power to dramatically shaken our economic, labour, and information systems. For the media sphere, it means yet another drastic turn on its bumpy ride towards any prospect of renewed stability. But unlike many other such turns, AI may provide professionals with a reactive (and creative) potential on a more egalitarian and therefore democratic basis. With the hindsight of coming on to two years of widely accessible AI tools, Prague Media Point 2024 will focus on assessing the impact on and responses of the media sphere and journalism to the two-vowel phenomenon.

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With regards to investigative journalism, this niche-oriented and slow-working genre is even more comparatively disadvantaged to cope with the constant drastic changes of the media landscape. Its importance for an informed public debate, more and more reliant on sensationalism and with proliferation of misinformation and deep fakes, is nevertheless even more important than before. Prague Media Point 2024, with its focus on good practice and solutions, intends to support the responsiveness and adaptability of investigative journalism through a series of discussions and workshops aimed at enhanced efficiency. We will convene journalists, media professionals and scholars, as to provide a truly cross-cutting profile of the profession and a broad range of perspectives. This is particularly important as AI sits on the verge of science and social practice, and more broadly, has consequences for nearly every area of human endeavour - media and journalism, i. e. professions tackling information, being at the forefront.

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​The project is realized by KEYNOTE and the project partners are:

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Albanian Media Institute (Albania), Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (Serbia), Independent Journalism Foundation/Center for Independent Journalism (Hungary),The Stanislaw Brzozowski Association/Krytyka Polityczna (Poland), Investigatívne Centrum Jána Kuciaka (Slovakia) and Center for Investigative Reporting (Bosnia and Herzegovina).