Mario Garcia: How AI is Unleashing New Creative Potentials in Journalism

Dr. Mario R. Garcia, Senior Adviser on News Design and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, joins Nikita Roy to discuss how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing news design and creating new opportunities for visual storytelling.

Mario shares insights from his extensive research and his new book, 'AI: The Next Revolution in Content Creation,' on how AI is being applied in newsrooms globally.

Mario offers his perspective on the emerging skill of prompt engineering and discusses ways in which journalism educators can teach the responsible use of AI.

Mario is the CEO and Founder of Garcia Media, a global consulting firm, and has been involved in redesigning and rethinking more than 700 publications across 120 countries, including notable ones like The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is also the author of 15 books.

He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for News Design, the Journalism Medal of Honor from the University of Missouri for Distinguished Service in Journalism, and the Charles O'Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Additionally, People Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.

🎧Tune in to discover how designers and illustrators can harness the power of generative AI, explore its applications in print journalism, and learn strategies for incorporating generative AI into classroom teaching.

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