'The only problem was that our bulletproof cars only protected against pistols and these guys killed people with rifles'. Tom Phillips speaks to Rio's journalists taking huge risks to investigate organised crime and corruption.
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🇦🇷 For our first Global Journalism Seminar of the term, we are joined Wednesday by Hugo Alconada Mon from @lanacion on the state of journalism in Argentina after the election of populist Javier Milei as President in November 2023.
🕐13:00 UK time
✒️Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

👋🏽We are delighted to welcome four new Journalist Fellows to the Reuters Institute this term.

🇦🇺 Laura Gartry from ABC News
🇩🇰 Signe Ferslev from @finansdk Jyllands-Posten
🇮🇱 Hagar Shezaf from Haaretz.com
🇳🇿 @RebekahWH from New Zealand Geographic

🔗Meet them here
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Protesters gathered outside the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday criticising US media for their coverage of the war in Gaza and Biden's involvement in it.
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Generative AI is helping fact-checkers, but it’s proving less useful in small languages and outside the West. Journalists from 🇳🇴🇬🇪🇬🇭 discuss their challenges with Gretel Kahn

Read the piece ft. Faktisk Myth Detector GhanaFact
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'Media freedom and media pluralism are close to breaking point in many EU countries' according to a new report by Liberties.EU based on findings from civil liberties groups across 19 countries.
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Two Russian journalists have been arrested in their country on 'extremism' charges, accused of working for a group founded by Alexei Navalny. On Friday, a journalist at Forbes Russia was arrested for spreading 'false information' about the military.
aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/28…

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🖼️Our journalist Marina Adami recently spoke to Oxford Internet Institute DPhil student and researcher Maggie Mustaklem on why we should move on from outdated images of artificial intelligence such as anthropomorphic robots and lines of blue code

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We analysed what happens when you ask ChatGPT for the latest news from specific sites. The responses:
52% said 'I'm unable to'
10% top stories on the website
30% old/minor stories
3% from a different site
3% too vague

Full details reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/im-unable-how-…
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How do AI chatbots respond when asked for the latest headlines?

This factsheet authored by Richard Fletcher Marina Adami and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen provides the first systematic analysis of what happens when AI chatbots are asked about news

Click to read
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🔴Récord histórico. La brecha generacional de acceso a las noticias alcanza su máximo histórico. Así lo muestra el último boletín semanal de Reuters Institute 👉mailchi.mp/politics.ox.ac…

Our contributor LauraOliver interviews Netra News founder Tasneem Khalil, who's breaking news on Bangladesh from afar: 'The space for independent media is shrinking fast. I wake every morning thinking about my team inside the country'

🇧🇩 Click to read
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👩🏾‍💻 Iniciativas innovadoras

Durante la Cumbre Nórdica de Inteligencia Artificial en los Medios, desarrollada en Copenhague, se presentaron varios proyectos interesantes.

Nuestra compañera Marina Adami estuvo allí y detalla cinco de ellos👇reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/nordic-ai…

🗨️Today, we announced the schedule of our #RISJseminars for the upcoming term, to be hosted by Caithlin Mercer Mitali Mukherjee:

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