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Shirish is an award-winning journalist, researcher and community organiser who has worked in every major broadcast newsroom in the UK, as well as at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He’s currently News Innovation Research Fellow of Media Cymru and the Cardiff University Journalism School. His work now focuses on developing new ways to build more effective, engaging and inclusive journalism through the News for All project - a ground-breaking collaboration with BBC News.

Portrait of Shirish Kulkarni
Credits: Gavin Porter

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LVR LandesMuseum

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How we are building a community of practice to make journalism more user-centric

With Mattia Peretti, Shirish Kulkarni and Styli Charalambous

Generative AI is the talk of the town but the audience is mostly missing from the conversation, with experiments focused primarily on gaining efficiencies. But we can’t make journalism more sustainable without radical new solutions and creating products that people actually want. Removing AI from the centre of the conversation, a group of media people started exploring avenues to make journalism more user-centric, and more equitable and sustainable as a result. This is what we've learned so far.

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LVR LandesMuseum

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Community-led Design. The Future of Journalism?

With Shirish Kulkarni and Mattia Peretti

Many marginalised people and communities feel let down by journalism. So how do we better understand what they really want and need from us? “News for All” is a radical collaboration between BBC News and Media Cymru, that’s putting those who are badly served by journalism at the centre of the design process, rather than on the outside. In this session, you’ll hear how prioritising connection, collaboration and care for communities is pointing the way to a reimagination of journalism for everyone.