What happens when a 100-year-old media company builds more than 1,200 AI agents, then starts building full-stack apps?Remy CEO Dmitry Shapiro sits down with David Cohn, who leads AI and innovation for the local newsrooms at Advance Local (The…

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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

Discover how Advance Local is transforming local journalism with over 500 AI agents assisting with activities across multiple U.S. markets. In this episode of The Next Breakthrough with Sean Campbell, David Cohn, Senior Director of Generative AI…

AI leaders from newsrooms around the world reflect on what 2026 will look like for editorial teams as they become more proficient with AI.

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.

"AI is the breakout star, trust is missing, and everyone's wondering who's writing the script."

In this conversation, David Cohn, Senior Director, AI Innovation at Advance Local, shares his extensive experience in building and deploying hundreds of AI agents within a large media organization. He discusses his strategic approach to identifying…

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

​​Join MindStudio CEO Dmitry Shapiro for an exclusive fireside chat with David Cohn of Advance Local. Over the past year and a half, David has built over 300 AI Agents that automate various processes within a large

I spoke on: The Future of Storytelling: From Liquid Formats to Fluid Interfaces This session will look ahead and explore AI's potential to reshape storytelling by enabling a shift from fixed narratives to adaptive, data-driven experiences.

AI is reshaping the article—not as a product to be read, but as a byproduct of structured information and what journalists output. What if the future of journalism isn’t writing stories, but building systems of trust, facts, and relationships?

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. Today they discuss :• How 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.