Svea Eckert is an award-winning investigative journalist known for her work on ARD programs such as Tagesschau and Tagesthemen, and as a digital expert on ARD’s Morgenmagazin. She specialises in uncovering tech scandals, privacy issues, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes, and propaganda. Additionally, she moderates events, delivers keynote speeches, and hosts three successful tech podcasts. Her investigative work has been recognsed with several prestigious awards, including the German Journalist Award and the Helmut Schmidt Prize. She is currently a Mercator Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research (HBI), where she is conducting research on journalism and AI.
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AI and the future of journalism: Balancing innovation and responsibility
The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming society across a wide range of sectors and journalism is no exception. The challenge is twofold: AI can both support and disrupt journalistic work, acting at once as a powerful tool and a potential competitor. At the same time, journalists carry the responsibility of helping ...
Covering AI: behind the curtain of hype and doom – interview with Svea Eckert
Svea Eckert is a freelance tech journalist and expert for NDR/ARD television, Germany’s national public broadcaster. She will hold a workshop on “responsible reporting on AI” at the 2026 ESMH Summer School on science communication in the age of artificial intelligence. We asked her a few questions about what good AI coverage should look like and ...