Alex Mahadevan is the director of MediaWise, a digital media literacy initiative based at The Poynter Institute, where he's also on faculty leading generative AI initiatives. He's trained thousands of students, older adults and journalists around the world in online verification, digital and AI tools and media literacy. Alex co-wrote Poynter’s AI ethics guide, led its two Summits on AI, Ethics and Journalism and developed its online AI certificate course. He began his career as a reporter, editor, videographer and data journalist at Observer Media Group.
