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.
Links und Tipps zum Einstieg ins Produktmanagement (Theresa Hoffmann)
The Defender Handbook: Radical Roots & Social-First Digital Tactics (Kansas City Defender)
Product Kit (News Product Alliance)
Baue eine robuste Medienorganisation mit unserem Selbstlern-Baukasten (Neue Narrative & Next.Media Hamburg)
Entrepreneurial Journalism Teaching Toolkit (Jeremy Caplan)
Offener Werkzeugkasten für neuen Journalismus (Karla Magazin & Netzwerk Recherche)
AI Search Has A Citation Problem. We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. (Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar, Columbia Journalism Review)
“Liberal AI Grok Attacks Trump, Turns on Creator Musk in Shocking Betrayal”
What happens when you cram all the world's knowledge, or at least what you can find, into a machine? The machine gets a sense of what's considered normal. I know, loaded term. Let's call it a baseline. This even applies to Elon Musk's supposed super AI, Grok 3. "Should a U.S. president say 'He who...
Put AI at the beginning, not at the end
(This is my contribution to Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism, 2025) Many newsrooms and publishers are looking for ways to use generative AI, and they’re making one crucial mistake: They’re hoping for the one magic button. They’re hoping for AI that can quickly turn an article into a podcast, web story, or newsletter. For AI...
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized (Kate Knibbs, Wired)
Apple urged to axe AI feature after false headline (Graham Fraser, BBC)
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem (Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan, AI Snake Oil)
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World? (Virgina Heffernan, Wired)
