Paul McNally is an award-winning investigative journalist and media entrepreneur with 20 years of experience starting companies in AI, podcasting and community radio.
He started as the new AI Advisor for IMS in March and looks forward to helping the teams across the globe in implementing AI effectively and ethically.
In 2023 he started the company Develop AI to report on AI, train people globally on how to use AI responsibly and create innovative AI projects. He has won 16 awards and was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2016 where he focused on improving the business models of media outlets in Africa. McNally is also the Founder of Develop Audio, an organisation that produces podcasts of the highest quality with a focus on social justice, human rights and corruption reporting. He worked as an investigative journalist for 15 years, started the non-profit project Citizen Justice Network that trained community paralegals to be radio journalists and is the author of the influential book, The Street, published by Pan Macmillan, which investigated police corruption & torture in South Africa.
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So what is happening at IMS with AI?
- We are planning AI workshops across IMS so media organisations across the world can be aligned with what they need to know in the field.
- Contact us to chat about AI and media innovation on our Discord server.
- Or simply send Paul an email: pmc@mediasupport.org
