The Role of Generative AI in Journalism
Event: The Role of Generative AI in Journalism
Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Aula Prima - Valletta Campus
Distinguished journalism Professor, Michael Bugeja, who will be awarded an Honoris Causa by the University of Malta, will be giving a public talk on “The Role of Generative AI in Journalism”, followed by a discussion panel made up of media and communications academics, at the Awla Prima, University of Malta Valletta Campus, on Thursday, 20 November at 18:30.
The discussion panel will include Professor Bugeja himself, Professor Carmen Sammut, Professor Alex Grech, and Dr Nicole Talmacs. It will be chaired by Professor Ä orÄ¡ Mallia, Head of the Department of Media and Communications that is organising the event.
Journalists, students and all those from the general public interested in this very important topic for today’s society are invited to attend. All must be seated by 18:15.
If more information is needed, please contact Ms Francelle Micallef Piccione at francelle.micallef@um.edu.mt.
Professor Michael Bugeja is a first-generation American whose parents, Michael Carl Bugeja (Gozo) and Josephine Apap (Marsa), emigrated to New Jersey in the 1930s.
He has taught media ethics and technology and social change at the Greenlee School of Iowa State University. His scholarship has been published in Journalism Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Journalism Educator, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, New Media and Society, American Journalism, American Communication Journal, and other academic journals. Professor Bugeja has published 24 books across genres, including three books by Oxford University Press: Interpersonal Divide: Searching for Community in a Technological Age; Interpersonal Divide in the Age of the Machine; and Living Ethics Across Media Platforms. He has twice won the distinguished Clifford Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics. His latest work is Living Media Ethics: Across Platforms, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2019.
In 2019, Dr Bugeja received Iowa State’s highest academic title of distinguished professor for his contributions to media ethics and technology. Of the more than 225 faculty members to receive this title since 1956, fewer than 10 have been so named in the humanities. After a dedicated 48-year career in journalism during which it is estimated that he has taught some 36,000 students at Oklahoma State, Ohio University, and Iowa State, Professor Bugeja retired in May 2025. In that year, he received the Schwartz Award, Iowa State's highest honour for service to journalism.
