Episode 94

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Published on:

22nd Oct 2025

Using AI

In the podcast today we dig into the hot topic of using AI as a journalist. We have expert advice from AI Media trainer Harriet Meyer and award-winning freelance health journalist Rosie Taylor. We talk about AI generated content, whether the robots are coming to take our jobs and how to use AI to your advantage. It's a meaty episode!

Guests

Harriet Meyer https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-meyer-63508b40/

AI for Media newsletter https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/ai-for-media-7304783376857587712/

Rosie Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosietaylor/

Get Featured Substack https://rosietaylor.substack.com/

Resources

ChatGPT

Otter.ai

Perplexity

Claude

Notebook LM

Google Gemini

Fathom

AI for Media course with Harriet Meyer https://www.harrietmeyer.com/ai-courses/

Recommendations

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/virtual-reality-the-widely-quoted-media-experts-who-are-not-what-they-seem/

Adele Waters award-winning freelance journalist

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