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The Media Copilot — 96 episodes

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AI didn’t kill Local News. Could it actually save it?

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The future of journalism is personal: How The Journal is building AI for readers, not robots

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AI's reality check: Why Sharon Goldman is looking beyond the hype

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Tech companies are becoming Media companies. What happens next?

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Local news, AI, and the fight for accountability

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The Scraper Economy is already here. Publishers just aren’t getting paid.

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AI won’t save Local News. But it might reinvent it.

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How AI is changing B2B media

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The Real Battle in AI Isn’t Capability. It’s Trust.

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Can You Certify Good AI use? This Organization Thinks So

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When AI changes discovery, who still gets paid?

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Search is Changing Fast. Is Your Brand Ready for the Answer Engine Era?

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Building the Newsroom AI Playbook Without Turning Journalism into Slop

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She’s Building the AI Agent That Could Replace Your News Feed

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Fake News at Machine Speed: Inside AI’s Impact on Media Trust

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AI, and copyright: How media can decide between litigation or negotiation

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Teaching journalists to use AI without losing critical thinking

18

Why Yahoo Still Matters and What It Knows About the Future of News

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Best of the Year: Inside the AI Shift that’s Transforming Media and Journalism

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Can You Trust That Clip? Storyful’s James Law on Verification in the AI Era

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Practical AI in the Newsroom with Darla Cameron of The Texas Tribune

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Building the Next Era of the Open Web with Adam Singolda

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Inside Time’s AI Push: Mark Howard on Building an Agent, Not Just Another Widget

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Reinventing Ads for the Age of AI

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How Newsrooms Are Really Using AI

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The Writing Renaissance: Tony Stubblebine on Medium’s Human Future in the Age of AI

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AI Wants Your Book. Trip Adler Says It Should Pay.

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AI Took the Clicks. Creators Want Them Back.

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From 400 Cities to 2,000: How 6AM City is building a newsletter empire with AI

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Can AI Fix the News Feed? Cory Ondrejka on NewsArc, Outrage Loops, and Smarter Curation

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Who Pays When AI Eats the Web? Bill Gross on Zero-Click Search, and the Conversation Layer

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Who Controls What You See? AI, Media & Power

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Bot-Blocking to Business-Building: DataDome’s Aurélie Guerrieri on the Intent Layer of AI Traffic

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The Atlantic’s AI Gamble with Nicholas Thompson

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Cloudflare’s Stephanie Cohen on fighting AI scraping

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The AP’s AI playbook: Troy Thibodeaux on liquid content, integrity, and the future of news

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No More Doomscrolling: Sara Beykpour on Smarter News with Particle

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Inside the AI Newsroom: Florent Daudens on Building Tools Journalists Actually Want

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How AI scrapers are breaking the internet’s honor code, with TollBit’s Toshit Panigrahi

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The new SEO: Chris Andrew on mastering AI search

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Building resilient content strategies for publishers with David Buttle and Will Barker

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How ScalePost’s Ahmed Malik is building an AI survival strategy for media

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Inside Reuters’ AI playbook: Why Jane Barrett says journalism can’t afford to sit this one out

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Dotdash Meredith’s bold bet on AI—and why it might actually work

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AI vs. truth: Inside the fight to keep propaganda out of the algorithm

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Reinventing local news with AI: Warren St. John unpacks Patch’s growth story

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How to get the essential AI skills every PR pro needs, with Peter Bittner

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How Factiva built an AI engine on 100% licensed content with Traci Mabrey

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Can AI save local news? The promise and peril of AI-powered journalism with Mark Riley

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The rise of AI content farms: Digging in with Wired’s Kate Knibbs

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Who Pays for AI? The Fight for Fair Compensation in Media with Annelies Jansen

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AI, PR, and the art of staying human, with Dan Nestle

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Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data with Francesco Marconi

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Leveraging AI to Connect PR and Press with Michelle Songy

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How to write with AI and stay 100% human, with Alexandra Samuel

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AI’s Role in Smarter News Monitoring, with AskNews CEO Robert Caulk

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AI's Media Transformation: From Newsrooms to 'Content Polymorphs' with Clare Spencer

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The AI Tollbooth: Dan Goikhman's Mission to Make ChatGPT Pay for Content

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AI Anchors in Action: Transforming Video News Production with Adam Mosam

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Mastering AI for PR & Media, With Peter Bittner

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How AI Changes Newsrooms and Readers, with BI Germany CEO Jakob Wais

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The Ethics of AI In the Newsroom, with Liam Andrew

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What Comes After Google NotebookLM, with AnyTopic's Daniel Rascon

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The Value of Humanity in an AI World, with Jeremy Kahn

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How to Build an iPhone-Obsessed Chatbot, with Joanna Stern

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Building Respect for Artists with Synthetic Songs, with Hooky CEO Jordan Young

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Empowering Journalists with Expertise on Demand, with Nick Toso and Catalina Villegas

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From Drake to Data, with Cedric the Entertainer and Qloo CEO Alex Elias

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Owning Your Audience in the Age of AI, with Subtext CEO Mike Donoghue

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Perplexity's Master Plan, With Dmitry Shevelenko

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How to Get AI Companies to Pay for Content, With TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi

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AI's Quiet Revolution in Hollywood, With Jumpcut Cofounder Dilip Rajan

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How AI Is REALLY Disrupting Video, With Lucihub CEO Amer Tadayon

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Fighting Deepfakes on the Blockchain, With Livepeer CEO Doug Petkanics

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Upgrading Journalism With AI, One Newsroom at a Time, With Nota CEO Josh Brandau

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Hunting AI Content in the Wild, With Originality CEO Jon Gillham

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Navigating the AI Revolution in Media, With Ricky Sutton

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News Aggregation in an AI World, With Alex Fink

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The Realities of Applying AI in Newsrooms, with Joe Amditis

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How Journalists Can Make Peace With AI, With Anne-Marie Tomchak

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Why Journalists Make the Best Prompt Engineers, With David Caswell

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How AI Is Creating Realistic Fictional Characters, With AImmersive

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How 'Invisible QR Codes' Can Protect Copyright in the Age of AI, With Eric Wengrowski

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Reviving the Dead With AI, With Siggi Arnason

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How Media Can Thrive in the Age of AI, With Louise Story

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Sniffing Out AI Writers, With Lee Gaul

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Applying ChatGPT to Financial News, With Matt Martel

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Running Your Own Newsroom's LLM, with Viktor Shpak

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AI Journalism Goes Global, With Charlie Beckett

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Is This the End of OpenAI?

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Staying One Step Ahead of ChatGPT, With Brennan Woodruff

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Putting AI Where Reporters Actually Work, With Ryan Restivo

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How Media Can Survive in the Generative AI Era, with Brian Morrissey

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Teaching AI to the Next Generation of Journalists, with Thomas Seymat

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How AI Can Customize Your News, with Jeremy Caplan

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The Ethics of DALL-E, with Harry McCracken