News Xchange

Liz Corbin, deputy media director and head of news at EBU closed News Xchange 2023 by calling for the news business to focus on what people do and not what they say. #NewsXchange @lizcorbinnews @EBU_HQ

“There’s probably some role for legislation of AI, but if you overact, it's harder to deregulate something that’s been regulated.” Paul Bascobert, President of Reuters tells #NewsXchange. @Bascobert @Reuters #AI

CNN anchor and chief national correspondent John King is "very worried" about the "tsunami of misinformation" that will accompany next year's US presidential election and has urged news organisations to shore up trust among their audiences. #NewsXchange @JohnKingCNN #CNN

'What President Putin did on the 24th of February last year has made this country almost unrecognisable to me' Steve Rosenberg tells #NewsXchange @BBCSteveR #NewsXchange #Ukraine #BBC.

"Putin really destroyed all independent media in Russia. We don't have any independent Russian TV channel in Russia now," Marina Ovsyannikova, the ex-Channel One editor told News Xchange today. #newsxchange #ukraine #news @newslady19

"The idea that one should be impartial against a killing machine that commits war crime after war crime is a dark fairy story." Veteran war reporter John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar told news leaders today in Dublin today. #NewsXchange #ukraine #news

News organisations must address the decline of foreign correspondents to ensure major stories are reported truthfully and fully and to counter authoritarianism and disinformation via social media said Mehdi Lebouachera, editor-in-chief at @AFP Asia-Pacific Region, at #NewsXchange

Discussing how generative #AI will change the news business at #NewsXchange in Dublin today, Mark Little, Founder & CEO of @Kinzen & @Storyful said journalists should focus less on "moral panic" over the technology and instead look at how it could be used to assist with tasks.

Rachel Corp, CEO of ITN, has called on the UK Government to do more to protect UK broadcast news from the impact of generative AI. “Let's get ahead of what are the harms and what are the things we don’t want from generative AI,” she said at News Xchange. #newsxchange @ITN #ai

@MartinReznicek calls for news journalists to play Devil's advocate while working in increasingly polarised societies #NewsXchange #news @ct24zive

The Taoiseach, @LeoVaradkar TD has said there is a place for social media in news but he is “really glad we have a mainstream media to go to for accurate information”. He also told #NewsXchange he is against an Irish version of the UK’s GB News but said it is unlikely in Ireland.

Journalist and presenter Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak tells broadcast journalists to stop Googling themselves, turn off their @twitter mentions and put online abuse into perspective compared to dangers faced by war correspondents #NewsXchange #bbc #politics #news

Former UK PM Liz Truss admitted today at the News Xchange conference in Dublin that she made a "series of mistakes" during her time as PM, but blamed her downfall on the media's "poor understanding" of economics. #NewsXchange #EBU @trussliz

Earlier Noel Curran, EBU Director General, opened @NewsXchange in Dublin with a speech focusing on need for collaboration in face of huge issues facing the #news industry, including threats to #mediafreedom Read it here 👉 social.ebu.ch/NCurran_NewsXc… #TrustedNews #NewsXchange

"Nature-related risks are now the key threats to the global economy" Wolfgang Blau, co-founder of Oxford Climate Journalism Network told News Xchange delegates today in Dublin. #newsxchange #climate #economy #ebu

EBU director general Noel Curran opened News Xchange 2023 by calling for a "fundamental rethink" in how the industry approaches news: ‘the choice of stories, presentation, narrative and fundamentally in who we recruit as journalists now and in the future.’ #NewsXchange #news #EBU

NEWS XCHANGE SPEAKER UPDATE Áine Lawlor one of Ireland's most highly respected broadcasters joins News Xchange to interview CNN’s leading political journalist, John King. #newsxchange #ebu #dublin #news #Reuters @lawlor_aine @rtenews Find out more at newsxchange.org

NEWS XCHANGE SPEAKER UPDATE Clodagh Kilcoyne Joins the session on covering the war in Ukraine. #newsxchange #ebu #dublin #news #reuters @ReutersAgency @ClodaghKilcoyne Find out more at newsxchange.org

NEWS XCHANGE SPEAKER UPDATE Tim Levell joins the News Xchange lineup to discuss his role reaching new and younger audiences for The Times. #newsxchange #ebu #dublin #news #reuters @timlevell @thetimes Find out more at newsxchange.org

NEWS XCHANGE SPEAKER UPDATE Kieran Cuddihy, Presenter, Newstalk Radio joins the News Xchange line-up to chair the session on the global challenge of combatting disinformation. #newsxchange #ebu #dublin #news #reuters @kierancuddihy Find out more at newsxchange.org