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Google got The Economist and The Atlantic to provide content for NotebookLM (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work: “”Where are the journalists who were formerly middling who are now pumping out incredible articles thanks to efficiencies granted by AI?” (Jason Koebler, 404 Media)
“Own the interface, control the signal and reshape the economics”: The next browser wars are here—and AI wants the ad dollars too. (Krystal Scanlon, Digiday)
Alex Reisner reports on Silicon Valley’s “assault” on the media: “The world is changing fast, perhaps irrevocably. The institutions that comprise our country’s free press are fighting for their survival.” (The Atlantic)
AI chatbots try to get to articles behind paywalls, and they do it the same way humans would: they search the web and social media for copies and excerpts, then piece it together. The difference is they can do it way faster, which raises the question of whether these bots should be allowed to do this at all. (Henk van Ess, Digital Digging)
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AI’s Next Land Grab: Your Browser
with Blick's Thomas Benkö
Journalism’s AI Challenge Isn’t Tech—It’s Purpose
with Bonnier's Freja Kalderén
with Hugging Face's Florent Daudens
The GenZ Reality Check Media Needs to Hear
with JP/Politikens Hus' Sara Inkeri Vardar
The End of the Web As We Know It
with Journalist and Media Advisor Jaemark Tordecilla
Attention Heads
“Soon people won’t be able to escape AI; it will be integrated into everything they own and use. Our audiences’ expectations of the digital world in general, and of the media, are going to shift radically. And their needs will change too. We can’t just polish our current solutions.”
The Telegraph’s Michelle Brister, May 2025
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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