A propos – About

Dr Laurence Dierickx has a professional background in data and computer journalism.

She holds a Master’s degree in Information and Communication Science and Technology and a PhD in Information and Communication Science. Her dissertation examined the implementation of news automation in newsrooms; through a socio-technical lens derived from science and technology studies.

From 2022 to 2025, she has been a guest researcher in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen (Norway), focusing on user needs, professional practices, ethics, and processes in fact-checking from the perspective of developing responsible AI-based technology within the Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS).

She teaches data and digital investigative journalism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and is a member of the ReSIC and LaPIJ research centres.

In 2024, she was accepted as a research fellow at the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC x TrygFonden) at the University of Southern Denmark, where her research focused on the use of large language models in fact-checking.

In 2025, she was appointed as an interim lecturer in AI at the Department of Information and Communication Science at ULB. She also collaborated on a research study for the JournalismAI program at the London School of Economics, focusing on AI literacy in journalism.

She joined the editorial board of Digital Journalism in 2026.

That same year, she began an MSCA COFUND fellowship at the University of Bergen as part of the LEAD AI programme.

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