Team Digital Journalism at the ECREA 2024

28 September 2024

Our team presented two exciting papers at this year's ECREA conference in Ljubljana. In their presentation ‘Diversity as Capital in Data Journalism’, Laura Laugwitz, Franka Bals and Juliane A. Lischka discussed how diversity in newsrooms contributes to capital formation and what challenges arise for marginalised data journalists. They concluded that humour leads to subtle marginalisation and that diversity is everyone's business.

Paul K. Koitie, Nadja Schaetz, Jessica Kunert (JGU Mainz) and Juliane A. Lischka presented their research on the role of datafication in the introduction of AI in news organisations in Germany and Kenya at the pre-conference ‘Mapping AI Actor Constellations in News Media and Journalism’. They showed how datafication levels and constellations influence the introduction of AI and which structural barriers exist.