The Directory of Liquid Content: Sannuta Raghu made a framework to make it easier to assemble, adapt, or repurpose news stories across contexts, users, or platforms.
Hi, I'm Ole Reissmann, a journalist who builds things. I'm the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL. Before that: podcasts, news product development, platform strategy. I write about AI and journalism and send a newsletter you might enjoy.
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? asks The Economist, referring to business models that rely on traffic and advertising. Tollbit, a paywall for bots, reports its highest per-crawl rates at a local newspaper. Unique content appears to be part of the solution.
Rise of the Fakecast: The Uncanny Valley of AI-Generated Podcasts
Research question: Given a newsletter and three articles mentioned therein, can AI make a passable podcast fakecast? Time constraint: 60 minutes Setup: Claude 4 Opus, Gemini 2.5 Text-to-Speech Result: 14-minute podcast Is it any good? At first, it seems impressive. I like how the different sources get incorporated, with the speakers looping back to arguments...
How the Associated Press Built its AI Strategy Without Breaking Trust (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
Rename screenshots with a description automatically with Gemini–for free
Screenshots. I take lots of them. I need something I see in my browser for a presentation. I want to remember something I see on social media on my phone. So. Many. Screenshots. And then what? Google has launched a tool to access Gemini 2.5 Pro from the command line. It’s called Gemini-CLI, and it...
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)
How AI Companies Turn Your Browser Into Their Business Model
OpenAI will launch a browser, Perplexity has just released Comet, and YouTubers are going full clickbait mode: "NEW AI Browser is INSANE!🤯" (Really? It's insane to chat with tabs? That word gets used pretty liberally these days, considering it's AI-bros getting excited about summarizing five YouTube videos simultaneously while doing important thought leadership. Anyhow.) The...
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)
Are AI-driven journalists trying to reduce stories to data streams? Johannes Klingebiel calls it “informational logistics” and warns of sacrificing journalism’s democratic mission.
Tomorrow’s Publisher: An AI-powered news aggregator from HBM Advisory, promising relevant news for the media industry from trusted sources. (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
