Title: Do we have to fear Artificial Intelligence? No, says Luc Julia, but… Newsletter introduction: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new technological Frontier, the importance of which has been recognised by the recent prestigious Turing price given to three prominent researchers in AI on March 25, 2019. Luc Julia, one…

Politiken, one of the leading daily newspapers in Denmark, has a long tradition of social engagement. Editor-in-chief Christian Jensen has launched an ambitious programme of sensitisation on climate issues called the Green Initiative, which affects both its journalistic content and its working methods within the company. — Christian Jensen has been appointed editor-in-chief of Politiken, the daily newspaper in Copenhague, in 2016. In terms of readership, it’s the largest paid for newspaper in Denmark, in terms of changing climate issues, as Jensen explains, it’s more of a gradual change than a revolution, since he has to deal…

While the Guardian has gone through an economic crisis in the 2010s, reaching £ 58,6 million (US$ 78,1 million) in losses in 2015, the appointment of Katharine Viner as editor-in-chief has led to a financial turnaround in recent years. In her interview with GEN, Viner shares her strategies and hopes for the future. — Katharine Viner, who joined the Guardian as a writer in 1997, became its first female editor-in-chief in 2015. …

As local American newsrooms go through difficult times, plagued both by reduced staff and lower budgets, The Big Local News, an initiative launched by the Stanford Journalism program at Stanford University, collects, cleans and shares data so that journalists and researchers can write stories about policies that affect local communities and how institutions are operating. — By aggregating data-sets from many locations and then sharing that data, the Big Local News project sets out to address the phenomenon of ‘news deserts’ and help strengthen local newsrooms.

As journalism is plagued both by an economic crisis which threatens the existence of all media, especially small ones, and by a general mistrust of content, counter initiatives are flourishing. Civil, a community of news organizations worldwide, based on blockchain, is one of them. Vivian Schiller, former executive of major media industry institutions, head of the Civil Foundation which forms the ethical base of Civil, and also a speaker at the GEN Summit, explains how this new network operates.

Voice-activated speakers powered by intelligent assistants, such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Homepod and Google Assistant, are growing faster than the smartphone and tablets at a similar stage. What does this mean for the media industry, and what change does the interest in these devices bring to newsrooms? — ‘Audio looks set to be one of the hottest topics in media during 2019, driven by the growing popularity of podcasts and the sale of hundreds of millions of new audio devices (aka smart speakers) — now spreading rapidly across the world,’ writes Nic Newman in the report ‘Journalism, media…