There’s no questioning it: AI is here to stay in the news business. Newsrooms are integrating AI into their workflows, and journalists and professional communicators have adopted AI as a tool to improve their reporting, writing, editing, and audience outreach.
The National Press Club Journalism Institute on Friday, May 16, held a half-day workshop to teach journalists how to incorporate AI into their daily work habits. We kicked off the afternoon with a conversation with journalists already using AI tools on what’s possible, as well as the ethical considerations journalists should make when using this technology. Then, we dove into hands-on training sessions that helped attendees develop a functional prompt-engineering strategy, learned the basics of LLM-powered data analysis, and started to build a journalist’s AI toolkit.
Speakers included:
- Vania André, Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Haitian Times
- Paul Cheung, Strategic Advisor for Hacks/Hackers
- Andrew Wallender, Data Editor for Bloomberg Industry Group