Combatting AI Misinformation in the 2024 Election - New England

LOCATION: WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215

DATE/TIME: Saturday, April 20, 2024

This in-person workshop is free and open to all NAHJ members. Non-members can attend for a $25 donation. 

If you aren't able to attend in person but want to tune in, you can join via Zoom.
Link will be sent in confirmation email upon registering.

 

 

AGENDA

08:30 am Continental breakfast & registration
09:00 am–10:00 am

ROBOTS AMONG US: A REVEALING LOOK AT WBUR’S COLLABORATIVE PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING GENERATIVE AI GUIDELINES

As Kelly McBride recently wrote for Poynter: the best ethical standards in journalism have always encouraged pushing forward, getting the information out and finding the best way to serve the public. It’s time for every newsroom to apply that approach to artificial intelligence. 

In this 60-minute discussion, you’ll hear from members of WBUR’s AI task force about their research, exploration and collaboration spanning the past six months in pursuit of developing the organization’s first set of GAI guidelines. These real-life human journalists - not robots - promise to pull back the curtain to share behind-the-scenes details about their processes around discovery and implementation so that you can be better equipped to deepen the understanding across your own newsroom of the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Presenters:

Dan Mauzy, Executive Editor, News, WBUR

Victor Hernandez, Chief Content Officer, WBUR

Tiffany Campbell, Executive Editor, Digital, WBUR
10:00 am–10:15 am

Break
10:15 am–11:45 pm

The AI Election

The U.S. expects an avalanche of fake audio, videos and images in the 2024 election. This session will provide you with tools and tips to help you identify election-related misinformation generated with artificial intelligence. But you don't have to be a fact-checker to call out misleading and false information. We'll show you how using skills you already have can improve credibility and strengthen your reporting. 

Presenter:
Miriam Valverde, Deputy Editor at PolitiFact
12:00 pm–01:00 pm

Lunch & Network

 

SPEAKERS

Miriam Valverde
Deputy Editor at PolitiFact

Miriam leads PolitiFact’s Spanish-fact-checking initiative, PolitiFact en Español. She also led the development and launch of MediaWise en Español, a digital media literacy program that teaches Spanish speakers in the United States how to spot misinformation online. Previously, she fact-checked claims about immigration, public policy, and COVID-19 as a PolitiFact staff writer. Miriam reported for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Bradenton Herald, the Boston Globe and a Boston Spanish-language publication, El Planeta. She graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a major in journalism and minor in business studies.
Dan Mauzy
Executive Editor, News, WBUR
 

Dan Mauzy has been a producer and editor at WBUR since 2010 and has led the newsroom since June, 2020, overseeing WBUR's local journalism across broadcast and digital platforms.

He's the former Santa Fe County bureau chief for New Mexico's Rio Grande Sun. It was public radio that got him through countless hours driving through the desert southwest to school board meetings and crime scenes, and eventually he made the switch. He got his start in radio at NPR’s StoryCorps and WNYC's On the Media.

Dan grew up in Stoneham and lives in Cambridge. He graduated from Vassar College, where he studied literature and mathematics. His reporting on judicial misconduct received a first place award for continuing coverage from the New Mexico Press Association.
 

 

Victor Hernandez
Chief Content Officer, WBUR

Victor Hernandez is responsible for overseeing all aspects of editorial at WBUR including local news and programming, national programs, podcasting and CitySpace.

As the organization's first-ever chief content officer, Hernandez is charged with helping to identify how to grow WBUR's audience and cultivate the loyalty and community support that is essential to sustaining local journalism at a time of profound technological change.

Before joining WBUR in March 2021, Hernandez was executive editor at Cascade Public Media, a nonprofit media institution created through the merger of Seattle's PBS TV station, KCTS 9 and digital news outlet Crosscut.

Additionally, Hernandez has held leadership roles at CNN, where he oversaw U.S. news coverage; NBC television affiliates in California; and a digital media technology startup. He's a former academic fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism and a national board member with the Society of Professional Journalists.

Hernandez has a degree in Mass Communication & Journalism from California State University, Fresno and a master's degree from West Virginia University in Media Solutions and Innovation.
 

Tiffany Campbell
Executive Editor, Digital, WBUR

Tiffany Campbell is WBUR's executive editor for digital. She works across the station on storytelling, news, platforms, product and all things internet.

She has deep experience in the digital news operations of broadcast, print and radio newsrooms, and her former posts include positions at The Seattle Times and CNN in Atlanta, Ga. She's most proud of her experience building digital teams; leading news teams in extraordinary breaking news situations, launching new sites and products; covering international and national news events, long-term work in visuals and design and the constant experimentation to evolve newsrooms and digital storytelling.

Tiffany grew up in Tacoma, Wash. in the shadow of Mt. Rainer and is still passionate about coffee, rain and evergreens. She now calls New England home but is still learning to embrace snow.

 

If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to [email protected].

 


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