Who’s who in the German-speaking LinkedIn universe when it comes to AI and journalism?
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
Google AI Mode Live In US: Tests Deep Search, Live Search, Personalization, Custom Charts, Shopping & Agentic. And no, Search Console data will not include breakdowns for AI Mode and AI Overviews. (Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Roundtable)
So… is ChatGPT making us dumb? A viral MIT study, what it actually found, and the delicious irony of how we consume research. (Steffi Kieffer, Substack)
What was reading? Humans turn to AI, viewing text as fungible and blurring the line between primary and secondary sources (Joshua Rothman, New Yorker)
Another fun one: Cloudflare CEO warns of AI-driven “existential threat” to publishers as search traffic dwindles amid bot-fueled content skimming. (Christine Wang, Axios)
People expect that AI will make news cheaper, more current, and easier to understand, one of the findings of the 2025 Digital News Report. (Nic Newman, Reuters Institute)
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with JP/Politikens Hus' Sara Inkeri Vardar
The End of the Web As We Know It
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with Rheinische Post's Margret Seeger
The AI Journalism Toolkit We Actually Need
with SZ Institut’s Dirk von Gehlen
with The Telegraph's Michelle Brister
Attention Heads
“Some people are so pleased with themselves for discovering that LLMs are statistical systems with error rates that they forget to notice that everyone in the field knows this, and more importantly, forget to notice that this doesn’t make them useless. You might call such people clever fools.”
Analyst Benedict Evans, June 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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