EU AI Act for Journalism & Media

Newsrooms run on AI — transcription, drafting, image generation — and publish into a world flooded with synthetic content. This track gives journalists, editors and producers the Article 4 literacy to use AI confidently, label synthetic content correctly under Article 50, and turn editorial control into both a compliance control and a trust advantage.

What you’ll cover

1. 1
   AI in the newsroom — the lie of the land

   Map the Act's four risk tiers, place typical newsroom AI within them, understand the Article 4 literacy duty and the phase-in timeline, and tell whether your organisation is a deployer or a provider.

   30 min · 3-question quiz
2. 2
   Synthetic content & the deepfake rules (Art. 50)

   Master the Article 50 synthetic-content rules: provider marking, the deepfake disclosure duty, the artistic exception, and the editorial carve-out that makes your workflow a compliance control.

   35 min · 3-question quiz
3. 3
   Verification, provenance & disinformation

   Treat synthetic media as an input problem: verify user-generated content, read provenance and watermark signals correctly, and understand why election-influence AI is high-risk.

   25 min · 3-question quiz
4. 4
   Using GenAI tools responsibly

   Use generative tools without harming your journalism: know where the GPAI duties sit, manage hallucination risk, protect sources and IP, and recognise the Article 5 red lines.

   30 min · 3-question quiz
5. 5
   Newsroom AI governance

   Build newsroom AI governance: an AI-use policy, ongoing literacy, the high-risk edge cases with the Article 26 checklist, the penalty scale, and the trust upside.

   30 min · 3-question quiz