The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in journalism that could decimate media organisations around the world.

The future of journalism – and its survival – could lie in artificial intelligence (AI). AI refers “to intelligent machines that learn from experience and perform tasks like humans”, according to Francesco Marconi, a professor of journalism at Columbia University in New York who has just published a book on the subject: Newsmakers, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. Read More