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Press Freedom Defense Fund Workshop

Safeguarding Journalism in the AI Era: Disabling Automated Features in Your Workflows

Webinar – May 14, 2025 2-2:45 p.m. ET

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As AI systems become increasingly embedded in standard journalistic tools and applications, newsrooms face ongoing challenges in maintaining source confidentiality and content integrity. What you don’t know about your tools and their AI integrations could compromise your journalism and put your sources at risk.

Join the Press Freedom Defense Fund for this workshop designed to equip journalists with practical strategies to maintain control over their digital workflows.

The stakes have never been higher as AI features silently collect, analyze, and potentially expose sensitive information without user consent, with more and more services now integrating AI features into their core functionality. From auto-saving drafts to cloud-based processing of document content, these capabilities create vulnerabilities for source protection and unpublished investigative materials. Our workshop provides the knowledge and frameworks needed to identify these risks, implement effective solutions, and develop policies that safeguard journalism in a digital ecosystem.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

  • Identify how common applications like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, and Adobe may be using AI to process your sensitive content
  • Discover step-by-step methods to disable AI features and opt out of data collection of confidential materials
  • Explore collaboration and transcription tools which don’t utilize cloud-based AI mechanisms
  • Discuss organizational guidelines and parameters for handling sensitive materials in today’s AI-integrated environment

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • Journalists working with confidential sources
  • Newsroom technology managers and IT staff
  • Editors overseeing sensitive reporting projects
  • Freelancers handling confidential information
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This workshop will be led by the Press Freedom Defense Fund team, who bring together deep expertise in information security, media law, and investigative journalism.

Nikita Mazurov is a security researcher focusing on source protection at The Intercept and the Fund. He has previously worked with the Committee to Protect Journalists, Internews, and other media organizations to develop best practices for source and journalist protection.

David S. Bralow is the chief legal officer of The Intercept and co-director of the Fund. He brings a wealth of experience in media law including First Amendment expertise, national security issues, Freedom of Information Act prosecutions and appeals, defamation, and privacy. He is also an adjunct faculty at Yale Law School’s Media Freedom of Information & Access Clinic.

Sumi Aggarwal is The Intercept’s chief strategy officer and an investigative reporter and editor. She is the co-director of the Fund. Prior to this, she was the editor-in-chief at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, during which the newsroom won two Robert F. Kennedy Awards and was nominated for Emmy and Peabody awards. She also spent nearly a decade at CBS News’s “60 Minutes.”