Paul McNally

Paul McNally is an award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur with 20 years of experience starting companies in AI, podcasting and community radio. He is the AI Adviser for IMS (International Media Support) where he consults with news organisations around the world on how to implement AI ethically. He writes about AI, has won 16 awards and was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2016 where he focused on using tech to improve the business models of public interest media. McNally is also the founder of Develop Audio, an organisation that produces podcasts of the highest quality with a focus on social justice, human rights and corruption. He started and ran the successful non-profit Citizen Justice Network that trained community paralegals to be radio journalists across Africa and he worked as an investigative journalist for 15 years on stories about assassinations, HIV, disinformation and wrongful convictions. He is the author of the influential book, The Street, published by Pan Macmillan, on police corruption and torture in South Africa.