I’m a journalist who builds stuff. At SPIEGEL, I launched podcasts, led teams, and shaped platform strategies. Now I’m into AI.
Read more in the About section. If you’re looking for links about journalism and AI, you’re in the right place:
AI & Journalism Links
Oops: MIT has withdrawn a paper that claimed productivity increases through AI. (Anthony Ha, TechCrunch)
It’s not about chatbots. What Big Tech is really working on: “embedding AI deeply into the fabric of their ecosystems, creating an invisible layer that spans our digital lives.” (Ezra Eeman made a nice visual, LinkedIn)
“The best way to get your client’s message into the output of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and the rest is by talking to journalists.” (Ben Smith, Semafor)
Florent Daudens has built an open source version of NotebookLM’s podcast to break down the top AI research paper each day: “Fully automated, now live on Spotify.” (LinkedIn)
What does it actually mean to get your news from AI? Laura Preston laments endless, evasive bullet points. I don’t know what’s worse: journalists thinking they can ignore AI after this, or people reading AI content and just going “good enough.” (Columbia Journalism Review)
Sometimes, I blog. I'm an advocate of POSSE: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere.
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When I'm asked about resources for news products and editorial development, I'm more often than not referring to these sites:
News Product Resources
“User needs in content publishing: the slide that started it all, five years later (Dmitry Shishkin, LinkedIn)”
“Digital Innovation Playbook” verspricht einen pragmatischen Rahmen und ein Werkzeugset für Produktentwicklerinnen und Managerinnen.
Quartz, once a beacon of business journalism, is now a media zombie after being acquired by private equity (Obituray by co-founder Zach Seward)
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