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In this episode, a group of students from Islay High School have created their own podcast. They did so as part of their journalism and media studies, as a result of a two day Media Skills programme sponsored at the High School by the National Union of Journalists and led by Fiona Macdonald, a well known BBC broadcaster and journalist with the World Service. During the workshop, she worked closely with all attendees, who included a couple of This Is Islay podcasters, but this episode is largely a result of the students who participated. These students chose to debate the impact of both the current global downturn in the whisky market and the advance of AI in terms of their future employment prospects.Acknowledgements:Special thanks to the high school students who participated in the media skills workshop and provided their consent to the development and release of this podcast episode.Many thanks also to BBC Senior Journalist Fiona Macdonald for leading the two-day workshop at Islay High School and supporting our budding journalists, and the NUJ for supporting the programme which brought her to Islay.Thank you to Islay High School for sponsoring the workshop and allowing use of its facilities.This Is Islay: Jean MacLellan, Richard Mansbridge (workshop participants), Jolyon Thurgood (introduction)Production: Gordon BerminghamMusic by Suno.com https://suno.com/song/d9f55fd3-5c28-416f-807f-c1776465f6ebDISCLAIMERIt must be stressed that what we did together was a role play which does not necessarily reflect the views of those of us who participated. Some content is consciously more provocative to make the dialogue more stimulating.