AI now makes a portfolio model possible for more newsrooms than ever. But senior editors have to run it.

Over the past year, I’ve been working with David Cohn on an AI-powered workflow that helps the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com produce a weekly Staten Island weekend events roundup. What used to take nearly a full day of manual work now takes about

The class, co-taught with returning lecturer David Cohn, teaches students how to develop interactive online news packages using best practices in design and web development.

David Cohn, the Senior Director of AI at Advance Local, describes this shift as a return to an older model of journalism. In the past, he said, an article was often produced by two people: the reporter, who gathered information by attending events, a

Over the last few years I’ve sat with the biggest names in digital media—learning their businesses up close and figuring out where AI truly moves the needle. Every major publisher I’ve met is wrestling with AI. A few have what resembles a

In this episode Jeremy Toeman sits down with David Cohn a lifelong storyteller who went from a philosophy and rhetoric student at UC Berkeley to shaping the future of news through product thinking and platform design.

A reflection on how thought leadership evolved—and what we lost when the collaborative infrastructure of early blogging quietly disappeared.

We hit the 5-year anniversary this month of Today in Ohio as a daily podcast discussion of the news in Ohio and Northeast Ohio, and to celebrate, we’re giving cleveland.com readers their own text-based version.

In this video, David Cohn, Senior Director of Innovation at Advance Local, discusses how MindStudio has streamlined various processes within their organization.Timestamps:0:00 Introduction of David Cohn1:12 How generative AI can be applied in the…

Key takeaways from the AI/Journalism Hackathon at UC Berkeley: Harnessing AI to Enhance Trust and Deepen Engagement in Local Communities. Meanwhile, David Cohn, senior director of research and development at Advance Local showcased how AI is already

During the AI Journalism Lab at CUNY

These days, news about the news is rarely fun. Tired of chasing clicks, the staff of the city’s newest online newsroom, Gazetteer, are trying to find a voice that cuts through the noise, one that is “irreverent” and “snarky,” but “human.” Journalists…

The AI Journalism Lab at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, created in collaboration with Microsoft, is thrilled to introduce its inaugural cohort of 25 journalists, media leaders, academics, and artificial intelligence…

An emphasis on subscriptions and changing coverage landscapes help explain Discover exciting ways to capitalize on the power and passion of the sports community at Brand Play: The ADWEEK Sports Marketing Summit. Register today to join us in NYC or…

A common critique of news today is that journalists have an “agenda.” People want journalism to present facts, not opinions or biases. It’s a noble wish. The First Amendment protects freedom of the press, but it does not require news outlets to be…

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Publishers have advanced from being basic news providers:They now bundle a range of services, from newsletters to podcasts, in an effort to increase both revenue and engagement. Among other things, they want to create a relationship directlywith the…

Ten use cases and lessons learned There are many reasons to create text channels: Texts have a 90% view rate, compared to the 30% email open rate many niche publishers report. Receiving information on the phone also adds immediacy to breaking news…

In the hours after Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in October 2022, scores of users declared the social network over and fled to Mastodon. Musk’s coziness with misinformation, uneven application of free speech absolutism and massive rounds of layoffs…