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Newsroom Robots

by Nikita Roy

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Kevin Delaney & Jim Friedlich: How The San Francisco Standard is Reinventing the News App

May 30, 2026 · 58 min

For most of journalism’s history, the article has been the atomic unit of news: a fixed container, written once and served the same way to everyone. That’s beginning to change. AI is moving out from behind the scenes, where it quietly…
Kati Erwert & Tristan Loper: How The Seattle Times uses AI to drive revenue in local news

April 12, 2026 · 58 min

At The Seattle Times, an AI tool identified a new prospect and helped close additional ad revenue in a single day. The Seattle Times is one of 11 news organizations participating in the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program…
Kat Downs Mulder: Inside Yahoo’s AI Strategy for the Future of News

March 13, 2026 · 46 min

For years, the aggregator model was simple: curate the best journalism from thousands of publishers and send audiences their way. Now that contract is being rewritten, and Yahoo News is one of the most interesting places to watch it…
CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, and Hacks/Hackers on AI in the Newsroom: In Conversation with Arlyn Gajilan, Burt Herman, Ryan Struyk and Rubina Madan Fillion

March 2, 2026 · 43 min

AI is settling in as infrastructure within newsrooms, a layer quietly reshaping how journalists discover information, how stories move through production, and how audiences increasingly expect news to reach them. In this episode of…
Uli Köppen: How Bavarian Broadcasting is preparing for an AI-mediated future where trusted content wins

March 2, 2026 · 47 min

Most major newsrooms have now moved beyond early experimentation with AI. The main challenge now is determining how to govern effectively, scale consistently, and strategically position AI across the entire organization—while maintaining…

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Melissa Bell, Aron Pilhofer, Mark Chonofsky & David Chivers: Chicago Public Media on Building AI Tools That Serve the Audience

January 27, 2026 · 48 min

Chicago Public Media operates two distinct news brands: WBEZ, the public radio station, and the Chicago Sun-Times, the legacy newspaper. With audio and print journalism, both membership and advertising revenue, and decades of archives in…
Alessandro Alviani & Fabian Heckenberger: How Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung is building AI products that audience can trust

January 10, 2026 · 60 min

By 2026, most leading newsrooms have moved past the question of whether AI belongs in their organization. Now the key question is: what does a sustainable AI product strategy look like when you’re building for a subscription-based business…
Francesco Marconi & Scott Austin: 2025 Year in Review, What Actually Changed in AI and Media

January 1, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

2025 wasn’t just another year of AI experimentation in the media industry. It forced the industry to confront a bigger question: what happens when AI stops being just a newsroom tool and becomes the layer audiences experience journalism…
Jim Friedlich, David Chivers & Matt Boggie: How the Lenfest AI Collaborative placed AI engineers in 10 newsrooms

December 19, 2025 · 47 min

The Philadelphia Inquirer never had an AI engineer on staff until the Lenfest AI Collaborative & Fellowship program changed that. The collaborative is a $5 million partnership between the Lenfest Institute, OpenAI, and Microsoft that…
Tav Klitgaard: How Zetland turned a newsroom problem into a global AI business

December 15, 2025 · 38 min

This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy is joined by Tav Klitgaard, the CEO of the Danish newsroom Zetland, to unpack the origin story of GoodTape — an AI transcription tool that began as an internal newsroom solution and evolved…
Markus Franz: How Germany's Ippen Digital Is Prototyping the AI-Powered Newsroom of the Future

November 26, 2025 · 52 min

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 intelligence changing how journalism gets produced? This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita…
Olle Zacharison: How BBC News is Shaping its AI Strategy for the Next Era of Journalism

November 15, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min

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 5,000 journalists? This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy talks to Olle…

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About the show

Looking to explore the intersection of AI and journalism? Influential thought leaders in the industry join data scientist and media entrepreneur, Nikita Roy, each week to explore what's next with AI and its implications for the media landscape. In each episode, industry experts discuss how automated newsrooms have the potential to change journalism and uncover opportunities to optimize workflows and increase efficiency without compromising journalistic integrity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.