Global Investigative Journalist
The Associated Press
San Francisco, California, United States
Garance is an expert at the intersection of investigative journalism and artificial intelligence who leads high-impact projects focused on AI's pivotal role in shaping our lives. A frequent speaker on AI and ethics, she recently led the development of the new AI chapter in the AP Stylebook to offer journalists best practices for covering these technologies, and has helped to create ethical standards surrounding the use of AI models. She spent 2020 at Stanford University, where she was selected as an inaugural joint fellow at the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships-Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
Through building editorial partnerships, as a journalist Garance has led cross-functional teams, carved out vital areas of coverage and developed new media training programs. Equally comfortable coding and appearing on camera, she embraces new technology and narrative storytelling. Her reporting for The Associated Press has shaped presidential campaigns, sparked federal investigations and was the subject of a first-ever documentary film with FRONTLINE PBS, which won a National News & Documentary Emmy Award. Garance's work also has been honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting and received prizes including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Domestic Print Reporting and the John Seigenthaler Prize for Courage in Journalism.
She lives in San Francisco, has graduate degrees in public policy and documentary film.
Luncheon — Beyond Hype & Alarmism: Elevating AI Coverage in the Newsroom
Thursday, September 19, 2024
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT
Ethical Journalism Across Every Beat in the Era of AI
Thursday, September 19, 2024
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT