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New AI Literacy Framework helps schools prepare learners for the age of artificial intelligence
Brussels, Belgium: European Commission (2026)
"This resource introduces the EU-OECD AI Literacy Framework for primary and secondary education, designed to help schools integrate AI literacy systematically into teaching and learning. It goes beyond learning how to operate AI tools by emphasizing critical understanding, responsible use, ethical i
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Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: Insights From the Global South
Media and Communication, volume 14 (2026), 19 pp.
"Scholarship on AI and journalism in the Global South has highlighted how digital and data colonialism reproduce global hierarchies of power, labour, and knowledge, often through platform capitalism and externally controlled technological infrastructures. Yet limited empirical research examines how
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Whose responsibility? Deconstructing global responsible AI from the African lens: a review
AI and Ethics, volume 6 (2026), 19 pp.
"This paper uses the theory of decoloniality to critically examine how African scholars have interrogated the dominant, global narratives surrounding responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). Through a multivocal literature review, the paper reveals a range of critical perspectives that expose syste
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Safety, Surveillance and the Protection of Journalists
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines the safety of journalists in the age of artificial intelligence, and how they can be protected. It surveys the surveillance industry, from Pegasus to Predator to Graphite, and how AI has made targeting cheaper and broader; it documents the epidemic of AI-facilitated gender-based
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The Algorithm in the Room: Seeing and Confronting the Implications of AI for the Future of Education
Paris, France: UNESCO (2026), 162 pp.
"This UNESCO collection critically examines how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are reshaping education. Rather than focusing only on AI tools, it considers human agency, student development, pedagogy, assessment, knowledge, governance, equity and the future of education. Particularl
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A Taxonomy of LLM-Supported Tasks for Critical AI Literacy in Journalism
Postdigital Science and Education (2026), 23 pp.
"This paper develops a task-based taxonomy for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into journalism education, drawing on task definitions from machine learning and natural language processing alongside journalism studies. Organised around four stages of the news workflow, newsgathering, sensema
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Navigating risks and rewards: How South African journalists use AI in the newsroom
Johannesburg; Stellenbosch: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 33 pp.
"This study demonstrates impressively how widely AI is already used in South African newsrooms – often, however, without systematic training, without editorial guidelines, and without tools adapted to African languages and contexts. The interviews make it clear that journalists stand between curio
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Fact-checking and Investigative Journalism’s Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Journalism Practice (2026), pp. 1-21
"The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has created new opportunities and challenges for journalism. A significant opportunity lies in the use of AI technologies for investigative journalism and fact-checking, core functions of the field. Grounded in technological appropri
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Multi‐Method Analysis of Locally Built Artificial Intelligence Models Designed for Journalists in an African Country
Media and Communication, volume 14 (2026), 19 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) models for journalism have been built within the Global North context, hence deepening the concerns of the “AI divide” between the North and South. This has compelled organizations in various areas of the Global South to develop journalism‐focused AI models to add
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Critiquing Generative AI in Africa's Media Ecosystems
London; New York: Routledge (2026), 215 pp.
"The book argues that as technology is a social construct reflecting existing power dynamics, those in the Global South, and in Africa in particular, are bound to be marginalised and have their knowledge, systems overlooked as the Global North dominates technological developments. The birth of AI ha
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Automated Disinformation and Malicious AI Swarms: Risks for Democracy and Development in Africa
Online: arXiv, First (2026), 26 pp.
"Generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how information is produced, accessed, and circulated, while enabling disinformation campaigns of increasing scale and sophistication. There is currently no clear evidence that fully autonomous AI swarms conduct influence operations at scale, but thei
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AI-Assisted Journalism and Media: Opportunities and Challenges
Deep Insights
Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 1st (2026), 172 pp.
"This edited volume examines how artificial intelligence is transforming journalism and newsroom practices, balancing practical opportunities with professional and ethical challenges. Its chapters cover AI-supported news gathering, verification, automated content production, audience engagement, new
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AI and Digital Journalism Education
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 29 pp.
"This paper examines how journalism education must change in the age of artificial intelligence. It documents the adoption gap in which students race ahead of their educators; it maps the
curriculum-reform models emerging worldwide, from the techno-humanist pyramid to formal AI-competency requireme
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AI, Data Journalism and Investigative Reporting in Africa
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 32 pp.
"This paper examines AI, data journalism and investigative reporting in Africa. It sets out the data-investigation pipeline and where AI genuinely helps; it surveys the African data-journalism
ecosystem, from Code for Africa to GIJN to InfoNile; it documents real investigations, from East African p
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AI Ethics, Bias & Governance in Media
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 22 pp.
"This paper sets out how newsrooms and journalism schools can use artificial intelligence ethically: how bias enters AI systems and compounds through the news pipeline, why the
dominant ethics frameworks are largely Western and what an African, Ubuntu-grounded alternative offers, and how a newsroom
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AI in the Newsroom: Practices and Case Studies
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper is a grounded account of how AI is really used in newsrooms today, not how it is imagined. It maps AI across the five stages of the news value chain; it documents the adoption paradox in which usage races ahead of strategy and confidence; it compares three institutional paths (Reuters, t
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AI-Powered Fact-Checking and Verification Tools
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 23 pp.
"This paper is a practical and critical guide to AI-powered fact-checking and verification tools. It explains how automated fact-checking works as a pipeline; it maps the four families of tools a journalist can use; it assesses their real accuracy and their limits honestly, including the striking fi
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Climate Change and Environmental Journalism in Africa
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 33 pp.
"This paper examines climate change and environmental journalism in Africa in the age of artificial intelligence. It surveys the state of the field, chronically underfunded, under-trained and under threat; it traces the evolution of climate disinformation from outright denial through delay to the
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Curricula and Curriculum Development for AI Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper is a practical manual for building AI journalism curricula. It sets out the competency frameworks, from UNESCO to the African Criteria, that define what a curriculum must achieve;
it presents the design methods of backward design and constructive alignment; it shows how to write measura
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Detecting and Countering AI-Enabled Disinformation
Kampala: Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 18 pp.
"This paper is a practical handbook for detecting and countering AI-enabled disinformation. Itexplains how synthetic media, deepfakes, cloned voices, generated images and persuasive fake text, is produced, amplified and monetised; it presents a four-layer verification stack and the SIFT method for a
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