Aliya Itzkowitz (FT Strategies, top left), Jody Doherty-Cove (Newsquest, top right), Tshepo Tshabalala (JournalismAI, bottom left) and Mattia Peretti (News Alchemists, bottom right) all speaking at our Newsrewired conference over the years
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As artificial intelligence transforms newsrooms and reshapes how we gather, verify, and distribute information, staying informed about this evolution has never been more critical.
But who should you listen to? We put that question to our community, and they were generous in recommending their top, trusted experts.
This isn't comprehensive however, so please let us know if we missed anyone.
Newsroom experts (22)
Alessandro Alviani, lead for generative AI, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Jane Barrett, head of AI strategy, Reuters
David Caswell, founder, Storyflow; former executive product manager, BBC News Labs
Jody Doherty-Cove, head of AI, Newsquest
Gina Chua, executive editor, Semafor
Phoebe Connelly, senior editor for AI strategy and innovation, The Washington Post
Ezra Eeman, strategy and innovation director, NPO
Laura Ellis, head of technology forecasting, BBC R&D
Karyn Fleeting, delivery director, AI, Reach plc
Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, chief AI officer, Washington Post
Sophie Huet, deputy global news, director, editorial innovation and AI, Agence France-Presse
Tom Kelleher, director of personalisation, AI & personalisation, The Telegraph
Tav Klitgaard, CEO, Zetland; chairperson, Good Tape
Uli Köppen, chief AI officer, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Manjiri Kulkarni Carey, former editor, BBC News Labs
Chris Moran, head of editorial innovation, Guardian News & Media
Sannuta Raghu, head, Scroll Media AI Lab for News And Journalism
Ole Reissmann, director of AI, SPIEGEL Gruppe
Zach Seward, editorial director of AI initiatives, New York Times
Agnes Stenbom, head of IN/LAB, Schibsted
Nick Wrenn, VP, Programming and events, CNBC
Olle Zachrison, head of News AI, BBC News
Journalists and writers (10)
Marina Adami, digital journalist, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Nilesh Christopher, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
Andrew Deck, AI staff writer, Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard University
Gretel Kahn, journalist, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Alvaro Liuzzi, newsletter editor, Redacciones5G, Telecom Argentina
Madhumita Murgia, artificial intelligence editor, Financial Times
Clare Spencer, freelance reporter, Generative AI in the Newsroom, Northwestern University
Jaemark Tordecilla, freelance journalist; Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University
Shayan Sardarizadeh, senior journalist, BBC News
Ricky Sutton, founder and podcast host, Future Media
Training and consultancy (21)
Wafaa Albadry, independent consultant
Charlie Beckett, director, Journalism AI Project, LSE
Kevin Donnellan, journalism and AI consultant, Explainable; content strategist, Reddit
Sam Gould, consulting manager and AI lead, FT Strategies
Jodie Hopperton, lead: product & tech initiative, International News Media Association (INMA)
Alan Hunter, co-founder, HBM Advisory
Christophe Israël, independent consultant; associate consultant, Fathm
Aliya Itzkowitz, manager, FT Strategies
Paul McNally, director and founder, Develop AI
Adriana Menezes Whiteley, director, FT Strategies
Harriet Meyer, trainer, AI for media
Heather Murray, founder, AI for Non-Techies
Zenzele Ndebele, director, Centre for Innovation & Technology (CITE)
Pete Pachal, founder, The Media Copilot
Mattia Peretti, founder, News Alchemists
Nikita Roy, ICFJ Knight Fellow; founder, Newsroom Robots
Ross Settles, independent consultant
Dietmar Schantin, principal, IFMS
Ramaa Sharma, founder & faculty, Reuters Institute
Adam Tinworth, founder, One Man & His Blog
Tshepo Tshabalala, project manager and team lead of JournalismAI, LSE,
Laurens Vreekamp, founder, Future Journalism Today Academy
Academia and research (15)
Rana Arafat, assistant professor, digital journalism, City, University of London
Emily Bell, director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia
Alexandra Borchardt, lead author, EBU News Report, European Broadcasting Union
Nicholas Diakopoulos, professor, Northwestern University
Peder Hammerskov, assistant professor, DMJX
Sofie Hvitved, senior advisor and head of media, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
Bronwyn Jones, research associate, University of Edinburgh; research lead, BBC
Dan Lloyd, research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Daria Minsky, lecturer, Bard College Berlin
Ethan Mollick, associate professor, The Wharton School
Laurens Naudts, postdoctoral researcher, AI, Media and Democracy Lab, University of Amsterdam
Grzegorz Piechota, researcher-in-residence, INMA
Devadas Rajaram, professor, Alliance University, Bangalore
Mike Reilley, senior lecturer, data and digital journalism, University of Illinois, Chicago
Felix M. Simon, research fellow in AI and news, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Policy and ethics (7)
Rebecca Ciesielski, algorithmic accountability reporting, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Shuwei Fang, Shorenstein Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Sam Gregory, executive director, WITNESS
Natali Helberger, director, AI, Media and Democracy Lab
Bahareh Heravi, BRAID fellow, BBC; associate professor, AI and media, University of Surrey
Murielle Popa-Fabre, responsible AI policies and governance expert, Council of Europe
Sanne Vrijenhoek, PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam
Tech companies and tech adjacent (10)
Christopher Brennan, co-founder, Overtone
Paul Cheung, strategic adviser, Hacks/Hackers
Lars Damgaard Nielsen, co-founder, MediaCatch
Florent Daudens, press lead, Hugging Face
Daniel Flatt, co-founder, Flare Data
Markus Franz, chief technology officer, Ippen Digital
Burt Herman, co-founder, Hacks/Hackers
Matthieu Lorrain, creative lead, Google DeepMind
Branislava Lovre, co-founder, AImpactful
Tassos Morfis, co-founder, Qurio
This list was first published on 13 June 2025 and was updated on 20 June 2025 with ten new additions
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