Columns
Why local news should be utilizing AI
How you’re already using it and how it can help your newsroom.
‘We are going to help people get free’
Using news and information tools to stretch far past incremental change by waking a radical imagination.
A template for my not-so-secret Airtable of great journalists I want to hire
Building personal pipelines instead of relying on others’ lets you control the twists and limit them.
Replacing the news
Action is urgent but we lack compelling visions for the news and information ecosystems our communities deserve.
Can journalism get ahead of the Metaverse?
This is not the first rodeo for journalism and augmented reality and the like but it might be an ideal time for inroads and progress.
Journalism innovation often skips the necessary because of a failure of perspective
Grid News and Punchbowl News. Two new national newsrooms launched during the pandemic. Both claim to be different takes on how to reinvent journalism in the U.S. But beyond being well resourced, it’s not yet clear how either of these newsrooms will be more innovative than their predecessors beyond attrition.
Upward means planning for growth
New opportunities don’t just appear, they need to be curated and designed with a candidate in mind.
News outlets and social media provide an avalanche of information during a crisis
How do you sift out the accurate from the inaccurate?
Transparency tools can make your reporting more credible
News and tech organizations grapple with the challenge of helping news consumers distinguish trustworthy sources.
Don’t link directly to misinformation sites
Archiving, tracking and annotating can help you avoid directing traffic to malicious actors.