NEFAC 30 Minute Skills: How Journalists Can Begin Using AI

    When:
    January 4, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
    2024-01-04T12:00:00-05:00
    2024-01-04T12:30:00-05:00
    Cost:
    Free
    Contact:
    Justin Silverman

    While some journalists have responded to newsroom AI with apprehension, the technology’s positive potential is beginning to emerge. Newsrooms of all sizes are starting to embrace the use of AI and incorporate new tools into their operations. This lesson will focus on how individual reporters can use the technology to strengthen their work and to support local journalism.

    By attending this class, you’ll learn:

    • How to use AI for storytelling.
    • How to create images using AI.
    • How to query and upgrade old documents.

    The New England First Amendment Coalition launched in 2020 a monthly educational series featuring short, practical lessons on journalism and the First Amendment.

    The goal of the program — called “30 Minute Skills” — is to provide reporters and other citizens knowledge they can use immediately in newsgathering, data collection, storytelling and other areas of journalism and First Amendment law.

    The lessons are provided in a 30-minute format to accommodate the demanding schedules faced by many working in New England newsrooms. The program is free and open to the public. Registration for each lesson is required.