Francesco Paulo Marconi

coFounder Applied XL | MIT Media Lab and Fellow alla Columbia University Tow Center affiliate researcher

Francesco Marconi is a computational journalist known for his work in automated journalism. Marconi is the author of Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. He has been featured in publications like The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, Corriere della Sera, and Columbia Journalism Review.

Research

Francesco Marconi held research appointments at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Laboratory of Social Machines at MIT Media Lab.  

In 2020, his book, Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism was published by Columbia University Press.

Career

Francesco Marconi was the artificial intelligence co-lead at the Associated Press responsible for news automation. In 2018, The Wall Street Journal appointed Marconi as R&D Chief to launch an editorial lab focused on artificial intelligence. 

While at the Wall Street Journal, Marconi establish a digital forensics committee to train journalists to verify DeepFakes, launched algorithmic transparency investigations, and developed a machine learning application that generated custom hedcut portraits.

Entrepreneurship

In 2020, Francesco Marconi founded Applied XL, a venture backed information company.