“User needs in content publishing: the slide that started it all, five years later (Dmitry Shishkin, LinkedIn)”
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 a Cult, They Want to Create God and Kill Journalism
That's the narrative. It goes like this: There's a group of powerful people in Silicon Valley who believe in effective altruism, want to live forever, and might be susceptible to fascism. They're not only building AI but believe in a super-intelligence that will have no bias and all the answers. So why not get rid...
Reuters Institute’s highlights from the International Journalism Festival 2025 in Perugia.
“Digital Innovation Playbook” verspricht einen pragmatischen Rahmen und ein Werkzeugset für Produktentwicklerinnen und Managerinnen.
Transformer Lab is an open-source platform for building, tuning, and running LLMs locally, sans coding.
Seamless MCP-powered integrations sound appealing, but raise performance and security concerns. (Shrivu’s Substack)
Deep-dive into RAG and evaluation: How Süddeutsche built their election chatbot. (Medium)
Asking the tough question: “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?” (Radek Sienkiewicz, VelvetShark)
“Stories that just could not be told without the assistance of AI”: NYT’s Zach Seward leans on AI tools, yet remains skeptical of AI-generated content. (Depth Perception)
Quartz, once a beacon of business journalism, is now a media zombie after being acquired by private equity (Obituray by co-founder Zach Seward)
Disgruntled Substack writers ditch 10% fees for flat-rate rivals, netting 20-25% more revenue. (Digiday)
Cautiously Optimistic AI Reckoning: Come See Our Talk at re:publica 25
Clare Spencer and I are heading to Berlin to talk about – waves hands dramatically – all of this. Journalism, AI, and whatever else feels relevant in this moment. We named our session AI in Media: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? and pitched this to re:publica: "Two industry insiders take you behind the scenes to...
AI is disrupting business models, warns Joshua Rothman: “We could be left with A.I.-summarized wire reports, Substacks, and not much else.” At the same time, he finds working with AI search “efficient, fun, and intellectually stimulating.” (The New Yorker)
Judicial panel overrides author preferences, bundles diverse copyright claims against AI companies into single NY proceeding. (Ella Creamer, The Guardian)
Sessions on Journalism and AI at the International Journalism Festival 2025 in Perugia
The festival is just around the corner, and here’s my annotated list of sessions focusing on AI and journalism that I plan to attend – and where you’ll likely find me. The session on the ideology behind AI (Captured). Thursday, 11:30 - 12:20, Auditorium San Francesco al Prato. With Natalia Antelava, Coda Story, Isobel Cockerell,...
