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ComAI at the 16th Hamburg Media Symposium

On Thursday, 25 June 2026, voices from research, media law and practice gather at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce for the 16th Hamburg Media Symposium. Under the heading “The Information Crescendo: Where Search and AI Meet – and Media Could Fall Silent,” the event addresses a development that is fundamentally reshaping the information ecosystem: traditional search and generative artificial intelligence are merging from both sides. Drawing in part on media content through so-called grounding, AI bots now answer the very questions citizens once put to the media, while search engines increasingly weave AI elements into how they work and present results. The symposium aims to ground this heated debate in perspectives from communication studies, media law, regulation and media economics, and to discuss it across a range of practical viewpoints.

Two members of our ComAI research group are taking part:

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut) opens Part I of the programme with a talk titled “The Automation of News. On the State of Research into Communicative AI in Journalism” – a topic that connects directly to ComAI’s work.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz (Director of the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut) introduces the symposium as moderator and offers the closing reflections at the end of the day.

The symposium is hosted by the Media Authority Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH), the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.

The full programme and registration are available here.

When: Thursday, 25 June 2026, from 1.30 p.m. Where: Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Adolphsplatz 1, 20457 Hamburg