How AI is changing media, journalism, and content creation.
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Local news, AI, and the fight for accountability.
This week on The Media Copilot podcast, I sit down with Rick Hirsch, who spent more than four decades at the Miami Herald before taking over the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. We get into what AI can actually do for the...
Media’s new AI bargaining chip
Something shifted this week. After two years of being told they had to feed Google’s AI to stay visible or vanish from search entirely, publishers just got a regulator-backed way to say no. It is the first real crack in the take-it-or-leave...
An AI answer is only as good as its sources
A year ago Google looked vulnerable. AI upstarts were challenging its search empire, and its own moves into AI were unproven and shaky. Now Google doesn’t just operate one of the top AI platforms in Gemini—its business is more solid than ev...
Stop re-pasting your style guide into every chat
A finished AI assistant has three key components. (Google Gemini)
Most people I work with have learned to write better prompts. They give the AI a persona, an objective, a few parameters. The outputs improve. They feel good about it. A wee...
The scraper economy, explained
Publishers have spent two years fighting AI on the copyright front—lawsuits, licensing negotiations, robot.txt standoffs. But there's a parallel economy most of them haven't even noticed yet. While the licensing debates play out in court, a...
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