Speakers

Paul McNally

Founder, Develop Audio & Develop AI

Paul McNally is an award-winning journalist and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience. He is the Founder of Develop Audio, an organisation that produces podcasts of the highest quality with a focus on social justice, human rights and corruption reporting. He is also the founder of Develop AI, an innovative company that trains people on how to use AI responsibly, reports on AI and builds AI projects.

He has won 16 awards and was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2016 where he focused on improving community media in Africa. In 2017 he created, hosted and produced Alibi, Africa’s first investigative, award-winning podcast. In 2015 he started Citizen Justice Network, a project based at Wits University that trains community paralegals in South Africa and Kenya to be radio journalists. He is the author of the influential book, The Street that investigated police corruption & torture in South Africa.