News Machines · my weekly newsletter
Case studies of what newsrooms build and what works, and analyses of the bigger shifts, such as AI licensing and the court cases over AI and news. And what all of it means for your own strategy.
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By Ulrike Langer, US correspondent for Kress Pro, reporting on media from the US since 2011.
I bring current AI cases from newsrooms in the US and Europe to your stage, with the people behind them on video and your audience voting live on their phones. Recent stages include the European Publishing Congress in Vienna, the b° future festival in Bonn and the Journalism AI Festival in London.
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A small selection of my reporting and analysis.
Successful local outlets will work as information services for their communities, using AI for tools such as meeting monitors and searchable records of local decisions. That only works if they're open about how AI and journalists are involved.
Read it at Nieman Lab →Interview with Zach Seward, the New York Times' editorial director of AI initiatives, on how the paper uses AI for workflows, investigations and its readers
Read the PDF →Five AI applications in local news from the US and Canada, from the Philadelphia Inquirer's searchable 196-year archive to AI-generated newsletters.
Read the PDF →AI companies follow an old pattern: first create dependency, then raise prices. Why switching later will cost media companies more than they expect.
Read the PDF →How Axios builds premium products on expertise, credibility and engagement, from paid Pro newsletters to local events, so AI-generated content can't easily replace them.
Read the PDF →A guide comparing AI transcription tools, including Otter, Sonix, Notta, Fireflies and Whisper.
Read it at Wonder Tools →How Hearst Newspapers and the nonprofit inewsource use AI quizzes, explainer bots, summaries and audio to keep readers on their own sites and rely less on search traffic.
Read it (German) →Mediahuis's mobile-first "Bundles of the Future" for readers aged roughly 30 to 50, and how 6AM City and Morning Brew use newsletters and data-driven segmentation to reach younger readers.
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