Watching Claude adapt to your style as you work with it is both fascinating and terrifying — and speaks both to the ability to fine-tune it with use and the uncertainty about which version is working at any given time... My latest post: Why my Claude isn't like your Claude bit.ly/3JPwDAE

My latest post, about the multiple roles editors play in newsrooms, from steering reporters in the right direction, to helping them craft compelling narratives, to finding typos and nit-picking language. And whether AI can help on those tasks. restructurednews.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Some news: Starting today, the Tow-Knight Center will be the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures-Knight, with a focus on how generative AI will change how people find, access and consume news and information, and how journalism needs to meet that moment to fulfill our mission

I'm moving my 15-year-old blog to Substack. My first post there — about that BBC/EBU study about the quality of AI-intermediated news, and what it does — and doesn't — say about how people are coming to news. Please subscribe. It's free! restructurednews.substack.com/p/welcome

What could you do with an army of interns? Could they alleviate the information overload issue? My latest post about creative uses of AI avatars — and one of my last posts there before I migrate the site later this week.... (I'll send a note out soon.) bit.ly/4hMJobq

Plus. a guest post from Claude on journalism and AI... bit.ly/4qEcuxN

Let's ask AI with AI thinks about journalism and AI — and then ask AI to critique what AI thinks of AI on journalism and AI, and then ask AI to... you get the idea. Plus, a guest post from Claude on AI and journalism. It's recursive Monday here at the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY bit.ly/3JqQnKD

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell on Long Island. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”

Large Language Models made not be great at facts, but they're becoming impressively good at editing — and that speaks to their potential value both in journalism and in new news products. My (now-regular) blog for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY. bit.ly/3L1LNTD

How do we ensure we serve all audiences in an AI-intermediated news landscape — from high-end users who can afford to pay for news to agents that will operate on our behalf, and the rest of us.... bit.ly/4nbXKmQ

More musings on media: When does a change in degree become a change in kind? How does Gen AI's impact on marginal costs — on personalization, on coding, on investigations — upend our previous assumptions about how we approach them? bit.ly/42AitcO

Another week, another post: This one on yet another way to deconstruct stories with Gen AI, and perhaps help reporters see blind spots and readers get broader perspectives.... structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/d...

How can we design systems that incorporate multiple perspectives on news — and come up with a more efficient way to read across different news sources as well? An idea: structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

Musings on Mediocrity: Some thoughts about how AI upends how we will look at and value skills, knowledge and qualifications across a host of industries — and how competition, especially in the middle tier, is about to get a lot tougher, even as new jobs and new roles are created. bit.ly/4nBe1Ck

Thanks, Dick!

And a piece I wrote about how AI will upend everything about news — what we do, how we do it, who we do it for, and how we get paid for it.... And how we need to get ahead of those changes. www.semafor.com/article/09/0...

Some news about me: I'm joining CUNY's J-school to lead its Tow-Knight Center, focusing on the intersection of journalism and AI and how we need to adapt to this brave new world. (I also remain Semafor's executive editor at large). www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...

Vibe coding won't just make making what companies make cheaper and faster; it'll likely remake how they make it, and what they make. The economics of product management are likely to be upended as scarcity of coding skills turns into plenty: www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

If ads can be personalized, how long before we get completely personalized news, created in the moment, based on what we know and what we care about - and is that a good thing or a bad thing? Some thoughts @semafor.com : www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

🟡 NEW: The group chats that changed America www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The prolific Bloomberg tech journalist Ashlee Vance has left to start a new media company around his curious, generally optimistic inquiries into technology and science.

🟡 SCOOP: Meta is overhauling its global policy team, replacing President Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan, his deputy and the company’s most prominent Republican.

🟡 NEW: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent, @maxtani.bsky.social reports.