Editorial projects

Sophia Smith Galer builds a new AI enabled tool every week - some private, some public - all to explore how this new technology may support quality journalism. Check out the public projects below.

Linguicide - a map of language loss

A first of its kind map using language datasets to show language endangerment alongside official recognition and linguistic documentation.

Charlie Beckett at IJF: 14 years of shifting journalism debates

International Journalism Festival, Perugia — 2012–2026

20+
panels
14
years
2020
algorithms era began
2022
generative AI era began
Panels per year — by topic category
Generative AI Algorithms & automation Other journalism topics
2012
4
2012
  • The new civic journalism
  • Kony2012: 100 million views online
  • After phone-hacking: cleaning up journalism
  • The future of news: moderation & participation
2013
2
2013
  • How women are presented by the media
  • Hyperlocal news
2016
3
2016
  • Journalism after Snowden
  • What constructive journalism is and why we need it
  • The death of journalistic objectivity
2017
4
2017
  • Improving news literacy through collaboration
  • Journalism after Snowden: future of the free press
  • Stop worrying about fake news. What comes next will be much worse
  • In defence of empathy
2018
2
2018
  • Social theory and the news
  • Who needs trust?
2019
2
2019
  • Nationwide collaborations on local investigative reporting
  • Pitfalls of over-reacting to populism
2020
3
2020
  • Automating the news: how algorithms are rewriting the media
  • What skills will be needed in the AI-powered newsroom?
  • Tortoise ThinkIn: how can we hold algorithms to account?
2022
2
2022
  • Managing a newsroom in the AI-powered future
  • Should media organizations accept funding from Google and Meta?
2023
3
2023
  • Could AI give technology giants more control over the news?
  • AI journalism: the next generation?
  • What happens to journalism now that Twitter is dying?
2024
2
2024
  • AI showcase
  • AI and journalism: what does it take to get it right?
2025
2
2025
  • After the hype: what are the key trends in journalism and AI?
  • Journalism in the age of AI: agents, answers and accuracy
2026
2
2026
  • When AI becomes the product
  • Mistakes, setbacks and unfulfilled expectations: an honest f*ck-up session
Recurring themes across 14 years
Generative AI Algorithms & automation Trust & objectivity News literacy Platform power Social media & news Investigative collaboration Disinformation / fake news Surveillance & press freedom Constructive journalism Gender in media Hyperlocal news

Charlie Beckett is founding director of Polis at LSE, where he leads JournalismAI. His IJF panels track journalism's biggest fault lines — from the phone-hacking era through the platform wars to the generative AI transformation now reshaping newsrooms worldwide.