Catharine Lumby

Panel: AI, News, Media and Trust

12:00pm – 1:00pm

The Fourth Estate and the Fallibility of the Human and the Technological

This paper will explore the current anxieties that attend the use of AI in news and related reporting. I will use my own experience as a young journalist when computers were first introduced into the newsroom and reflect on the relationship between human subjectivity and machine- based learning when it comes to building trust with an audience and the Fourth Estate’s aspirations to objectivity.

 

Bio

Professor Catharine Lumby is a Professor of Media at the University of Sydney where she was founding Chair of the Media and Communications Department. Prior to entering academia, she worked for two decades as a print and TV journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald the ABC and The Bulletin magazine. She has written and co-authored ten books and numerous book chapters and journal articles and recently completed a biography of Frank Moorhouse.

 

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