What losing an ampersand does to a journalist
The focus is on building infrastructure, tools, computational models, and systems tailored for newsgathering and news consumption in an AI-mediated information world.
Welcome to 2046: The web is gone, articles are fossils, and journalism lives inside APIs
A speculative dispatch from the future, where journalism is not made for eyes and clicks, agents are the real audience, and the hardest editorial decision is no longer what to say but what counts as verified enough to enter the system
Testing a modular approach for Solutions Journalism
How the four pillars of Solutions Journalism — Response, Evidence, Limitations, and Insights — map onto what readers actually want to know
Modular Journalism with AI Agents
Detecting user effects and mapping Information needs in automated mews pipelines
Agent 2 vs. the Gray Lady: A Stress Test in Dehumanization
When AI annotations read better than the original reporting, perhaps it is time to rethink how we consume news. I, for one, would keep my NYT subscription if it were delivered in an AI-mediated format
Why Journalism Needs Structure Before AI Eats It
A linguistic framework for news
The Structure Imperative
A ‘geometric proof’ that journalism survives the AI apocalypse if and only if it adopts modular production
There Is No Such Thing as AI Magic
Copy and paste the recipe of one of my custom GPT agents, the “pipeline architect.” It will tell you something you may not like to hear: that AI agents do not replace structure and automation; they depend on them, including the very boring plumbing.
Breaking the Gemini Barrier: What Happens to Journalism Without Search Results
AI answers are becoming the default interface to information. In three ordinary searches, I got what I needed from Gemini and almost never reached journalism. That gap is the Gemini barrier: when answers satisfy intent before reporting is discovered. The question is not whether journalists should write, but how they should publish so that answers still lead to them.
The Dark Side of Mint Green
I followed a swatch (green, not white) through Gmail's dark mode and tested four color-mapping methods to see what sticks
Agent 2 Versus the World
Engineering had nothing to do with it, and it was about journalism all along.
The News Stack
Journalism Engineering is a platform for journalists with product and data fluency