In 2023, the Centre for Media Transition (CMT) published a report on how Australian newsrooms are adopting generative AI, and its impacts on the production of public interest journalism and the challenges it poses for the integrity of the news information ecosystem. As the ethical implications of genAI become clearer and new technologies continue to be refined – often outpacing regulation – the CMT is exploring the possibilities of intra-newsroom and co-regulatory policies to safeguard what we call 'information integrity', both in Australia and the region.
In 2024, the CMT partnered with the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Australia to deliver the Information Integrity Forum 2024. We extended the scope of our research on genAI, journalism and information integrity into four key countries: India, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, inviting four senior news editors from different outlets in each country to participate.
On the first day of the forum, participating editors were invited to share the professional challenges of protecting information in their newsrooms and broader media ecosystems in a full day of sessions. The editors, alongside CMT researchers, reviewed intra-newsroom mechanisms to secure information integrity from a global best practice perspective.
On the second day, the CMT facilitated two roundtables on media policy solutions and AI regulation with additional input from Australian experts in academia and the news media industry.