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.

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

​​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?

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.

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"Some pivots, once deemed infeasible, might be worth a second look using new technology."

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

A panel on the use of AI in newsrooms.

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During the AI Journalism Lab at CUNY