Publications and Presentations

Publications

  • Wilczek, B. (forthcoming). Toward responsible innovation of artificial intelligence in local journalism. In A. Sarısakaloğlu & M. Löffelholz (Eds.), The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism. Wiley.
  • Piasecki, S., & Helberger, N. (2025). A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers. The Information Society: An International Journal, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2025.2473398
  • Eder, M., & Sjøvaag, H. (2025). Falling behind the adoption curve: Local journalism's struggle for innovation in the AI transformation. Journal of Media Business Studies, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1080/16522354.2025.2473301
  • Pillai, R. G., Fokkens, A., & van Atteveldt, W. (2025). Engagement-driven persona prompting for rewriting news tweets. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.576.pdf
  • Wilczek, B., Thäsler-Kordonouri, S., & Eder, M. (2024). Government regulation or industry self-regulation of AI? Investigating the relationships between uncertainty avoidance, people’s AI risk perceptions, and their regulatory preferences in Europe. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02138-0
  • Wallner, C., & Wilczek, B. (2024). Erlösmodelle journalistischer Medienangebote [Revenue streams of journalistic media]. Studie erstellt im Auftrag von XPLR: MEDIA in Bavaria. https://www.xplr-media.com/de/studie-erloesmodelle.html
  • Piasecki, S., Morosoli, S., Helberger, N., & Naudts, L. (2024). AI-generated journalism: Do the transparency provisions in the AI Act give news readers what they hope for? Internet Policy Review, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2024.4.1810
  • Eder, M., & Sjøvaag, H. (2024). Artificial intelligence and the dawn of an algorithmic divide. Frontiers in Communication, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1453251
  • Quintanilla Portugal, R. L., Delle Ville, J., & Antonelli, L. (2024). Implementing accuracy for responsible AI in newsrooms. Proceedings of the 27th workshop on requirements engineering (WER24), Argentina. https://doi.org/10.29327/1407529.27-30
  • Wilczek, B., & Eder, M. (2024). Developing responsible AI in local journalism with Design Thinking: An organizational learning perspective. In G. Hooffacker, W. Kenntemich & U. Kulisch (Eds.), Neue Plattformen - neue Öffentlichkeiten: KI, Krisen und Journalismus (pp. 31–43). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44659-8_3
  • Wilczek, B., Haim, M., & Thurman, N. (2024). Transforming the value chain of local journalism with AI. AI Magazine, 45(1), 200–211. https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12174
  • Sjøvaag, H. (2024). The business of news in the AI economy. AI Magazine, 45(1), 246–255. https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12172
  • Portugal, R., Wilczek, B., Eder, M., Thurman, N., & Haim, M. (2023). Design thinking for journalism in the age of AI: Towards an innovation process for responsible AI applications. Proceedings of the Joint Computation + Journalism European Data & Computational Journalism Conference, Switzerland. https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/99947866602346
  • Wilczek, B., & Haim, M. (2023). Wie kann Künstliche Intelligenz die Effizienz von Medienorganisationen steigern? Eine Systematisierung entlang der Nachrichtenwertkette mit besonderer Berücksichtigung lokaler und regionaler Medien [How can artificial intelligence increase the efficiency of media organizations? A systematization along the news value chain with special consideration of local and regional media]. MedienWirtschaft, 4(19), 44–50. https://doi.org/10.15358/1613-0669-2022-4-44

Conference Presentations

  • Portugal, R., Eder, M., Wilczek, B., Haim, M., & Thurman, N. (forthcoming). Responsible AI innovation in local journalism: Findings and solutions from two Design Thinking projects in Germany. Future of Journalism Conference 2025, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Seipp, T. J. (2024). Blind spots in the EU’s efforts to regulate platform opinion power and digital media concentration. Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AoIR), Sheffield, United Kingdom.
  • Wilczek, B., & Wallner, C. (2024). Revenue streams of privately owned journalistic media organizations: Status quo and future. Medientage München, Munich, Germany.
  • Eder, M. (2024). AI innovation in the newsroom: A Design Thinking workshop to support new approaches to responsible AI. Computation + Journalism Symposium 2024, Boston, United States of America.
  • Seipp, T. J. (2024). Proposals for a future-proof European "Digital Media Concentration Law". ECREA 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Wilczek, B., Thäsler-Kordonouri, S., & Eder, M. (2024). Government regulation or industry self-regulation of AI? Indirect effects of uncertainty avoidance through AI risk perceptions on people´s regulatory preferences in Europe. 74th Annual Conference of the ICA, Gold Coast, Australia.
  • Wilczek, B. (2024). Towards an innovation management approach to develop responsible AI in local journalism: An organizational learning perspective. EMMA 2024, NHL Stenden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
  • Wilczek, B. (2024). AI product innovation management in news organizations: A cross-national investigation from a stakeholder theory perspective. EMMA 2024, NHL Stenden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
  • Eder, M., & Sjøvaag, H. (2024). Falling behind the AI innovation curve? Understanding transformative challenges for local news organizations in Germany and Norway. EMMA 2024, NHL Stenden, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
  • Wilczek, B., & Portugal, R. (2024). Levering design thinking for responsible AI innovation. Innovations in local news media, MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network.
  • Eder, M. (2024). The current state of responsible AI in (local) journalism. Innovations in local news media, MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network.
  • Wilczek, B. (2024). Responsible innovation of responsible AI in local journalism. AI for media: Science meets journalism, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Technical University of Munich, Germany.
  • Wilczek, B., Eder, M., Portugal, R., Thurman, N. & Haim, M. (2023). Journalism students' views on AI innovation and responsibility: Findings from a Design Thinking project in Germany. Future of Journalism Conference 2023, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Piasecki, S., & Helberger, N. (2023). To procure or not procure: Improving the conditions for journalistic AI adoption from external technology providers. Future of Journalism Conference 2023, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Portugal, R., Wilczek, B., Eder, M., Thurman, N., & Haim, M. (2023). Design Thinking for journalism in the AI age: Towards an innovation process for responsible AI applications. Joint Computation + Journalism and European Data & Computational Journalism Conference 2023, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Wilczek, B., Thurman, N., Haim, M., Helberger, N., Fokkens, A., van Atteveldt, W., & Sjøvaag, H. (2022). AI adoption patterns in local journalism: Current use and future potential in the German media market. 72nd Annual Conference of the ICA, Paris, France.
  • Wilczek, B., Helberger, N., & Thurman, N. (2021). AI strategy formation in local newspapers [Virtual conference session]. Future of Journalism Conference 2021, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Wilczek, B., Thurman, N., & Helberger, N. (2021). Current state and future potential of local AI: An investigation of how and under what conditions local newspapers adopt artificial intelligence applications along the news value chain. [Virtual conference session]. 71st Annual ICA Conference, Denver, CO, United States of America.
  • Wilczek, B., Thurman, N., & Helberger, N. (2021). AI adoption in local journalism [Virtual conference session]. Journalism 5.0, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Pre-Conferences, Conference Panels, and Workshops

  • Eder, M., & Sjøvaag, H. (forthcoming). Artificial intelligence in journalism from a global perspective: Past, present, and future. Pre-conference to be organized at the 75th Annual ICA Conference in Denver, United States of America.
  • Pillai, R., & Dierickx, L. (2024). Knowledge management in newsrooms (K-MiN). Workshop organized at the 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-24) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Pillai, R., & Gajardo León, C. (2024). AI in newsrooms: Beyond hype to practical solutions. Workshop organized at the VU Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Pillai, R., Dodds, T., Seipp, T. J., & van der Nat, R. (2024). Artificial intelligence in Dutch regional newsrooms : Prospects and perspectives. Panel organized at the MozFest 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Wilczek, B., & Knudsen, E. (2022). Understanding the dynamics of (ir)responsible AI in journalism and algorithmically shaped news flows. Pre-conference organized at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference in Paris, France.
  • Wilczek, B., Thurman, N., Helberger, N., Diakopoulos, N., Haim, M., Fokkens, A., van Atteveldt, W., & Sjøvaag, H. (2021). Artificial Intelligence in local journalism. Virtual panel organized at the 71st Annual ICA Conference (originally to be held in Denver, CO, United States of America).

Invited Talks

  • Eder, M. (2025, March 20). Kann KI Journalismus besser machen? [Can AI improve journalism?], organized by Bayerischer Rundfunk. https://www.bjv.de/blog/wie-ki-den-journalismus-veraendert
  • Pillai, R. (2025, March 13). Beyond the buzz: AI solutions for local newsrooms challenges, organized by AI4ALLWomen - Amsterdam Circle.
  • Pillai, R. (2024). AI usecases in journalism. "AI in newsrooms: Beyond hype to practical solutions", organized by the VU Amsterdam.
  • Seipp, T. J. (2024). AI Governance. "AI in newsrooms: Beyond hype to practical solutions", organized by the VU Amsterdam.
  • Pillai, R. (2024). AI solutions for local journalism challenges: A Design Thinking approach and beyond. "WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis", organized by MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation, University of Bergen.
  • Portugal, R. (2024). Integrando valores en el diseño de software: Una experiencia de Design Thinking en un periódico alemán [Integrating values in software design: A Design Thinking experience in a German newspaper]. Presentation held at the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS), University of Santiago de Compostela.
  • Haim, M. (2024). KI im Lokaljournalismus: Einblicke in das Projekt "Towards Responsible AI for Local Journalism" [AI in local journalism: Insights from the project "Towards Responsible AI for Local Journalism"]. "Intelligent in die Zukunft: vom Umbruch zum Aufbruch", 26. Forum Lokaljournalismus 2024 der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb).
  • Eder, M. (2024). Wie KI heute und morgen den Journalismus verändert [How AI is changing journalism today and tomorrow]. "FokusLMU: Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen - Chancen, Grenzen und Gefahren", organized by LMU Munich.
  • Eder, M. (2023). Verantwortungsvolle KI und Lokaljournalismus: Aktuelle Entwicklungen und neue Möglichkeiten [Responsible AI and local journalism: Recent developments and new possibilities]. Presentation held at the Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg.
  • Wilczek, B. (2023). Nailing your subscription pitch: What compels readers to pay? Chair of a panel consisting of experts from the Guardian News and Media, Dazed Media, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Mill Media. "Newsrewired Conference", organized by Journalism.co.uk, London.
  • Portugal, R. (2023). Design Thinking for responsible AI in local journalism. Presentation held at the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS), University of Santiago de Compostela.
  • Wilczek, B., & Portugal, R. (2023). Towards responsible AI in journalism. "pd digital Conference", organized by Mediengruppe Pressedruck, Augsburg.
  • Wilczek, B. (2023). Lokaljournalismus in Zeiten von KI und Digitalisierung: Design Thinking als Lösungsansatz, um verantwortungsvolle KI im Lokaljournalismus zu entwickeln [Local journalism in times of AI and digitalization: Design Thinking as a method to develop responsible AI in local journalism]. "Neue Plattformen – neue Öffentlichkeiten", organized by the HTWK Leipzig and European Institute for Quality Journalism (EIQ), Leipzig.
  • Sjøvaag, H. (2023). AI and Infrastructure. Keynote panel, organized by the AI, Media, and Democracy Lab. Amsterdam.
  • Eder, M. (2023). Journalism at the algorithmic crossroads: Challenges and opportunities of responsible AI. ICA partner panel: "Trustworthy and responsible AI: Communication
    perspectives", organized by the IAMCR 2023, Lyon.
  • Sjøvaag, H. (2023). Communication infrastructures, distribution flows and datafied media industries. CUDAN Open Lab Seminar Series, organized by Tallin University.
  • Sjøvaag, H., & Ferrer Conill, R. (2023). Digital backbones: Data streams in the digital infrastructure and consequences for the media industries. MediaFutures Seminar, organized by the University of Bergen.
  • Thurman, N., Wilczek, B., Stalph, F., & Thäsler-Kordonouri, S. (2021). Automation in local journalism: The views of news consumers, editors and executives in the UK and Germany. Virtual Research Seminar on “Artificial Intelligence in News Media: the Case of Local Journalism”, organized by the MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network.
  • Wilczek, B. (2021). The future of local news media. Keynote at the Conference on “Digital Discourses: Journalism in the Digital Age”, organized by the Goethe-Institut Indonesien, German Embassy Jakarta, Deutsche Welle and the Multatuli Project.
  • Wilczek, B., & Thurman, N. (2021). Ambidextrous AI: Antecedents of efficient and ethical AI applications in local journalism. “Corona Talks”, organized by Prof. Dr. Reinemann, Department of Media & Communication, LMU Munich, Germany.

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