JournalismAI Report Launch:
A global survey of what news organisations are doing with AI

Jim has worked as a news business leader, investor and regulator. Prior to joining FTS Jim was Chief Investment Officer at Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a specialist fund which provides debt and equity investments for news companies in countries where press freedom is under threat. Between 2012-20 Jim was Chief Executive Officer of BBC World News and bbc.com - the BBC's commercially-funded TV and online news services for audiences outside the UK. Earlier in his career Jim was part of the launch management team at Ofcom, the UK's communications and media regulator, where he was Ofcom's first Director of Strategy. While in the public sector Jim also spent a year as Specialist Adviser to the UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

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George has spent the last four years guiding the FT’s data strategy as it balances revenue and risk. Most recently, he founded and continues to lead a cross-departmental FT team focused on the future of marketing & advertising in the context of restrictions on online tracking.

George also holds an MBA from IE Business School and is a very proud member of Surrey County Cricket Club.

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Charlie is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications. He is the founding director of Polis, the London School of Economics' international journalism think-tank.

Professor Beckett is currently leading the Polis Journalism and AI project. He was director of the LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission that reported on the misinformation crisis in 2018. He is the author of SuperMedia (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) and WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era (Polity 2012). Before joining the LSE in 2006 he was an award-winning producer and editor at LWT, the BBC and ITN's Channel 4 News.

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Mira is the lead researcher and co-author of the JournalismAI 2023 report. She led various media development projects in the Arab world focused on data journalism, and media sustainability and ethics, before completing an MA in Big Data in Culture and Society at King's College London in 2022. Her research has focused on algorithmic censorship on social platforms and big data surveillance technologies in colonial and postcolonial settings.

Dr Maryam Ahmed is an award-winning Senior Data Scientist and Journalist at BBC News in London. She holds a PhD in Machine Learning for Medical Imaging from the University of Oxford.

Maryam's recent work has exposed algorithmic bias at the UK Home Office, widespread housing discrimination against benefits claimants, and online climate misinformation. In 2021 she won a Royal Statistical Society Award for Investigative Journalism. Alongside her journalism, Maryam teaches Python at University College London and Kings College London.

Jane is the Global Editor, Media News Strategy for Reuters. As part of the Editorial leadership team, she has responsibility for editorial innovation and new business, including AI, audio, fact-checking and events. She works closely with Reuters global clients to improve output and modernise journalistic formats and content. She is one of two Editorial leads on Reuters AI team.

Previously, Jane led the multimedia transformation of the global newsroom to increase Reuters digital output. She has also been the business editor for EMEA, started up a financial video service and was a reporter in Italy and Spain. Outside Reuters she is a trustee of Podium.me, a charity that gets young people into journalism and storytelling through podcasts, and is a board member of the World Editors’ Forum. She has a lifelong passion for classical music and being outside.

David Dieudonné is Google News Lab Lead in France, since March 2016, also covering Italy and Spain since November 2019. In December 2019, he launched JournalismAI, Google’s partnership with Polis the journalism think-tank of the London School of Economics to foster AI literacy in newsrooms globally through research, training and experiments. Previously, he was Agence France-Presse Deputy bureau chief in Marseilles with editorial oversight on the three bureaus covering the south-east of France, from Montpellier, Nice and Ajaccio.

In 2012, David has received a scholarship from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to pursue a Master of Arts specialized in Politics for mid-career journalists. He graduated in 2013. David had worked for Agence France-Presse since 2001. In July 2010, he was given special oversight on the 12 correspondents covering the troubled Paris outskirt. Previously, he was a reporter engaged in international temporary crises assignments, such as piracy in the Indian Ocean, the 2010 earthquake in Haïti, and the war in Afghanistan.

David’s first beat at AFP was the Aerospace and defense industry. In 2006 he joined the Washington Bureau of AFP, reporting on the US financial crisis, the World Bank and the IMF.

After completing a Masters of Arts in French modern literature, David Dieudonné started his journalism career at “Reporters Without Borders”, supporting journalists in jail. In 1997, he settled as an independent correspondent in Jakarta, where he covered the fall of the Suharto regime.