Charlie Beckett
@charliebeckett.bsky.social
LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
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JournalismAI Festival | Day 1
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All the sessions from our journalism and AI Festival are now on YouTube: check out the case study demos and panels showing off innovation from around the world www.youtube.com/live/ocr--Gv...
Job alert! We are looking for someone based in South Africa to join our JournalismAI team on a new project - please share! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Programme Officer | JournalismAI 2025/26
Programme Officer JournalismAI is looking for a Programme Officer (Full-time) to support the execution of its grant funding programme and other activities. The Programme Officer will work closely w...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Job alert! We are looking for someone based in South Africa to join our JournalismAI team on a new project - please share! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Good game today. Villa are a better team but we looked good. It didn't matter for me as I was thinking how much this game has changed since I started (1970s) and my sons (2000s). Mateus Fernandes has the attributes, but there will never be another Bonzo
December 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Good game today. Villa are a better team but we looked good. It didn't matter for me as I was thinking how much this game has changed since I started (1970s) and my sons (2000s). Mateus Fernandes has the attributes, but there will never be another Bonzo
So the King is now a health influencer. And he's brilliant. Not sure how relatable but it feels genuine. www.bbc.com/news/article...
King Charles shares 'good news' that his cancer treatment will be reduced
The 77-year-old says the milestone is a "personal blessing" and testimony to advances in cancer care.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So the King is now a health influencer. And he's brilliant. Not sure how relatable but it feels genuine. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Had fun with my sons at the Barbican's 12th Night. It's basically Shakespearean panto with some poetry and done brilliantly. I wonder what non-Brits make of it? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Twelfth Night | Barbican
Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding production of Shakespeare's masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon.
www.barbican.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Had fun with my sons at the Barbican's 12th Night. It's basically Shakespearean panto with some poetry and done brilliantly. I wonder what non-Brits make of it? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
'While collaboration between humans and generative AI does not automatically enhance their joint creativity even after multiple rounds of co-creation sessions, joint creativity does improve over time if there are instructions and guidance on idea co-development.' www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/how-hum...
How human-AI interaction becomes more creative - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School
Cambridge Judge Business School research shows human-AI collaboration doesn’t instantly boost creativity. Over time, structured idea co-development improves joint creativity.
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
'While collaboration between humans and generative AI does not automatically enhance their joint creativity even after multiple rounds of co-creation sessions, joint creativity does improve over time if there are instructions and guidance on idea co-development.' www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/how-hum...
I was wondering what the use case might be for those AI automated podcasts with generated voices. This might be it. digiday.com/media/the-wa...
The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners
The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.
digiday.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I was wondering what the use case might be for those AI automated podcasts with generated voices. This might be it. digiday.com/media/the-wa...
The World Cup has been corrupt since the beginning but this is just the tip of the iceberg of monumental grifting and extortion. There is no longer any pretence that this is a real people's event www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup ticket prices: Fifa's prices a 'monumental betrayal' says Football Supporters Europe
Fans' group Football Supporters Europe says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The World Cup has been corrupt since the beginning but this is just the tip of the iceberg of monumental grifting and extortion. There is no longer any pretence that this is a real people's event www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Into the bowels of the BBC this morning to record a contribution to Moral Maze. It's an easy one: what is truth? Broadcast Xmas Eve 8pm
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Into the bowels of the BBC this morning to record a contribution to Moral Maze. It's an easy one: what is truth? Broadcast Xmas Eve 8pm
Refreshingly imaginative vision of what journalism could be in 2026 by @hermida.bsky.social : 'When journalists collaborate with AI in storytelling, creativity flourishes.'
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Refreshingly imaginative vision of what journalism could be in 2026 by @hermida.bsky.social : 'When journalists collaborate with AI in storytelling, creativity flourishes.'
And yet my state of the art eco water heating system doesn't work www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And yet my state of the art eco water heating system doesn't work www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Thoughtful reflections, but remarkably conservative predictions considering we are talking 25 years hence. Think how much journalism has changed since 2000 and now we have AI. These are all tweaks of current structures (apart from Lorenz). It's hard for current news people to reimagine themselves.
Carolina Abbott Galvão and @riddhisetty.bsky.social asked newsroom leaders, independent journalists, and international reporters how they see the media changing in the next 25 years. Their answers describe upheavals to come in both the business and practice of journalism. www.cjr.org/feature/visi...
Visions of 2050: Prominent media figures read the present—and predict the future.
We asked prominent media figures to read the present—and try to predict the future.
www.cjr.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thoughtful reflections, but remarkably conservative predictions considering we are talking 25 years hence. Think how much journalism has changed since 2000 and now we have AI. These are all tweaks of current structures (apart from Lorenz). It's hard for current news people to reimagine themselves.
Interesting miscalculation. It's a good book but this appears to be a significant error. LSE's Marion Dumas from the climate change Grantham Institute is interesting on AI and water/energy btw andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-...
Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use
And the media environment that didn't catch this is getting this issue wrong
andymasley.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Interesting miscalculation. It's a good book but this appears to be a significant error. LSE's Marion Dumas from the climate change Grantham Institute is interesting on AI and water/energy btw andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-...
Reposted by Charlie Beckett
We’ve got a significant publication out today - a review of how 10 countries around the world organise their public service media, and what lessons can be drawn for the renewal of the BBC Charter
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We’ve got a significant publication out today - a review of how 10 countries around the world organise their public service media, and what lessons can be drawn for the renewal of the BBC Charter
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
Interesting, and I would argue refreshing, job advert from the Economist for a newsroom expert
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Interesting, and I would argue refreshing, job advert from the Economist for a newsroom expert
I love how they don't even pretend it's real or meaningful. It's a straightforward transaction like giving a child an ice cream that we all know is made of sh*t
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I love how they don't even pretend it's real or meaningful. It's a straightforward transaction like giving a child an ice cream that we all know is made of sh*t
I'm catching up with family. This I hadn't seen from the archive. My father touring Europe on a Matchless and a Triumph. 3 trips 48/49/50 ranging from Brittany to the Rhine to Switzerland and Sweden.
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'm catching up with family. This I hadn't seen from the archive. My father touring Europe on a Matchless and a Triumph. 3 trips 48/49/50 ranging from Brittany to the Rhine to Switzerland and Sweden.
My Google translate can't cope with this. Any Latinists know what this means?
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My Google translate can't cope with this. Any Latinists know what this means?
Reposted by Charlie Beckett
💼 Come work with us!
#JournalismAI is looking for a Programme Officer (Full-time) based in 🇿🇦 South Africa to support the team and its activities.
👉 Learn more and apply before 14 December: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#JournalismAI is looking for a Programme Officer (Full-time) based in 🇿🇦 South Africa to support the team and its activities.
👉 Learn more and apply before 14 December: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Programme Officer | JournalismAI 2025/26
Programme Officer JournalismAI is looking for a Programme Officer (Full-time) to support the execution of its grant funding programme and other activities. The Programme Officer will work closely…
docs.google.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💼 Come work with us!
#JournalismAI is looking for a Programme Officer (Full-time) based in 🇿🇦 South Africa to support the team and its activities.
👉 Learn more and apply before 14 December: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#JournalismAI is looking for a Programme Officer (Full-time) based in 🇿🇦 South Africa to support the team and its activities.
👉 Learn more and apply before 14 December: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Makes me sick that @lsepress.bsky.social takes money from the man responsible for this bsky.app/profile/gerr...
The sewer that is GB News. Now promoting repugnant ethno-nationalism & racism broadcasting calls to remove ethnic minority MPs from the UK Parliament. Even Enoch Powell at his most odious did not stoop this low. Meanwhile the supposed regulator @ofcom.bsky.social is asleep at the wheel.
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Makes me sick that @lsepress.bsky.social takes money from the man responsible for this bsky.app/profile/gerr...
Amazing. @channel4news.bsky.social just trailed an item on water shortages in Tunbridge Wells and then went into a commercial for WaterAid. Priceless irony.
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Amazing. @channel4news.bsky.social just trailed an item on water shortages in Tunbridge Wells and then went into a commercial for WaterAid. Priceless irony.
Excellent detailed summary of our Journalism and AI festival. As the article says it was packed with expert and innovative voices from around the world - a great read and all the sessions are online
I was in London last month for the first in-person JournalismAI Festival hosted by @polislse.bsky.social and the Google News Initiative. I wrote up a few of the highlights for @niemanlab.org.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/news...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/news...
News media is “becoming part of AI systems”: Notes from the JournalismAI Festival 2025
The London conference tackled topics like AI-assisted reporting, article personalization, and deepfake detection.
www.niemanlab.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Excellent detailed summary of our Journalism and AI festival. As the article says it was packed with expert and innovative voices from around the world - a great read and all the sessions are online
Stephen raises an interesting point here about UK political journalism. I am not sure how I'd prove the level of policy reporting over time with research. People have argued for decades (see J Birt 'Bias against understanding' 1975) that there's too much horse-race/Westminister bubble journalism.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Stephen raises an interesting point here about UK political journalism. I am not sure how I'd prove the level of policy reporting over time with research. People have argued for decades (see J Birt 'Bias against understanding' 1975) that there's too much horse-race/Westminister bubble journalism.
What a loss. Moore, Hurst, Peters, Brooking all legends, but we were always Billy Bonds' claret and blue army. RIP share.google/6WVpEshnfuBg...
A statement from the family of Billy Bonds MBE - West Ham United FC
It is with deep sadness and the heaviest of hearts that West Ham United shares the following statement from the family of legendary player, coach and manager, Billy Bonds MBE…
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November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
What a loss. Moore, Hurst, Peters, Brooking all legends, but we were always Billy Bonds' claret and blue army. RIP share.google/6WVpEshnfuBg...
RIP Irony: "I just don’t know what you can do with people like that, people who wilfully refuse to see the reality of a situation simply because it contradicts their political viewpoints" www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The obvious truth about BBC bias
For quite a few members of the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, the answer to the claims of left-wing bias against the BBC could be annulled by the simple expediency of firing the ...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
RIP Irony: "I just don’t know what you can do with people like that, people who wilfully refuse to see the reality of a situation simply because it contradicts their political viewpoints" www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Apply now for our free APAC region AI Academy open to journalists and media professionals from any news organisation in the region, regardless of size. The 5-week programme will start in February 2026.
Details here: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...
Details here: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Apply now for our free APAC region AI Academy open to journalists and media professionals from any news organisation in the region, regardless of size. The 5-week programme will start in February 2026.
Details here: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...
Details here: www.journalismai.info/programmes/a...