In Polis founder Charlie Beckett’s keynote speech at a Carleton University-hosted roundtable on Thursday, he delivered something of a challenge to journalism’s position as gatekeeper of the news in the new age of artificial intelligence. “I think there’s this myth in journalism that news is in itself valuable commercially,” Beckett said. “It’s not. It’s always …

Roundtable keynote speaker Charlie Beckett is the founding director of Polis, the U.K. think tank for research and debate around international journalism and society in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Beckett is also the author of SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The …