As part of updating the curriculum, ACJ has introduced Artificial Intelligence into its Integrated Journalism module in a meaningful way. It has two components – a series of lectures and presentations by students.

A four-week intensive module of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Journalism in November-December 2024 was delivered by visiting experts, academics and practitioners from Scandinavia and India.

The main objective was to equip the students not only with skills to use cutting-edge AI tools as aids to improve efficiency or reduce mechanical work, but also to impart knowledge to understand AI and look at it through an informed, critical lens.

Experts and media practitioners who delivered the module included Professor Charlie Beckett, Director of Polis and the Polis/LSE JournalismAI project

Carl-Gustav Lindén, professor of data journalism at University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway, led a team of academics and journalism practitioners, including Journalist Patrik Syk of Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet, Walid Al-Saqaf, an associate professor at both the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Södertörn University in Sweden, Malin Picha Edwardsson, Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden, besides Devadas Rajaram, Alliance University, Bengaluru, and Dr Ramanujam, formerly with the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

AI tools were introduced in a critical manner through a series of practical exercises, following which students made group presentations.