Free sector track · Art. 4 AI literacy

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.

Journalists, editors, producers & newsroom leads2.5h · self-paced5 modulesPass mark 80%Free · certificate of completion

What you’ll cover

  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 · 5-question quiz
  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 · 5-question quiz
  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 · 5-question quiz
  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 · 5-question quiz
  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 · 5-question quiz

Topics

Risk tiers & where newsroom AI sits (Art. 50)Deepfake labelling & the editorial carve-out (Art. 50(4))Verification, provenance & election integrity (Annex III §8(b))Responsible GenAI use & prohibited practices (Art. 53, Art. 5)Newsroom governance, Art. 26 & penalties

What you get

  • A hash-sealed certificate of completion — “EU AI Act Journalism & Media — Certificate of Completion” — with a public verify URL.
  • A training record your employer can count towards its Art. 4 AI-literacy duty; in a Veritome workspace it files to the AI literacy register automatically.
  • Your progress saved as you go, on any device, with a one-time email sign-in link and no password.

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2.5h · 5 modules · self-paced