The Rory Peck Trust (RPT) and the US Embassy teamed up to celebrate World Press Freedom Day 2024, for a mixed audience of experienced news journalists and 50+ students studying Journalism at seven colleges including UCL, Goldsmiths, Kings College and Oxford Brookes. The event included a session on AI’s influence on journalism, and several masterclasses, George Jarrett reports.
Jon Williams, the new executive director of RPT, spoke exclusively to IBC365 after chairing a session on AI. Asked what he identifies as the biggest challenges to a freelance community robbed of the previously vital status of neutrality, Williams said: “There are two things – the industry environment and the global environment, both of which are fracturing.
“Increasingly news organisations are reducing staff, and some are reducing international coverage and have become more reliant than ever before on freelancers to get the news,” he added. “In terms of the global situation, increasingly around the world there are places where international reporters just cannot go. Whether that is Myanmar, China, or Gaza, luckily the local journalists are already there.”...
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