Newsroom Robots

2025 Year in Review with Francesco Marconi and Scott Austin

2025 wasn’t just another year of AI experimentation in the media industry.

Jan 1

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December 2025

How the Lenfest AI Collaborative placed AI engineers in 10 newsrooms: In Conversation with Jim Friedlich, David Chivers & Matt Boggie

The Philadelphia Inquirer never had an AI engineer on staff until the Lenfest AI Collaborative & Fellowship program changed that.

Dec 19, 2025

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How Zetland turned a newsroom problem into a global AI business: In conversation with Tav Klitgaard

What happens when a newsroom turns an internal AI solution into a global business?

Dec 16, 2025

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November 2025

How Germany's Ippen Digital Is Prototyping the AI-Powered Newsroom of the Future: In Conversation with Markus Franz

How do you redesign a newsroom’s entire workflow when AI is no longer a single tool, but a collection of agents, voice interfaces, and ambient…

Nov 26, 2025

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How BBC News is Shaping its AI Strategy for the Next Era of Journalism: In Conversation with Olle Zacharison

How do you bring AI into a newsroom as big and globally distributed as the BBC, an editorial network that stretches across 42 languages and more than…

Nov 14, 2025

1:05:39

October 2025

Why the Future of Journalism Is Still Human: In Conversation with Vilas Dhar

Can AI write, analyze, and create?

Oct 8, 2025

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September 2025

Inside The Economist’s AI Playbook: In Conversation with Ludwig Siegele

How does a 182-year-old global magazine stay ahead in the age of generative AI?

Sep 24, 2025

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How Estonia’s Media Giant Builds AI That Actually Works: In Conversation with Ivar Krustok

In Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people, Delfi Meedia has built one of the strongest foundations for AI in journalism.

Sep 8, 2025

1:05:58

August 2025

Why AI Literacy Belongs at the Core of Journalism Education: In Conversation with Djordje Padejski

As a new academic year begins, journalism schools face a defining challenge: how to prepare students for a profession being reshaped by AI.

Aug 25, 2025

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The Next Chapter in News Aggregation: In Conversation with Sara Beykpour

How your journalism is packaged, credited, and consumed is shifting — and Particle News offers a glimpse of where aggregation may be headed.

Aug 14, 2025

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July 2025

How Open-Source AI Puts Newsrooms Back in the Driver’s Seat: In Conversation with Florent Daudens

What if the future of journalism isn’t locked behind the paywalls of big tech companies, but freely available to every newsroom willing to embrace it?

Jul 14, 2025

1:04:24

The Hard Truths About AI Every Newsroom Leader Can’t Ignore: In Conversation with Fabian Heckenberg, Naja Nielsen and Gard Steiro

We in journalism often find solace in the phrase “human-in-the-loop,” believing it is our ultimate safeguard against the unpredictable tides of…

Jul 3, 2025

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