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For the news industry to lead in the AI era instead of chasing it, publishers need a first-party data infrastructure that enables even the smallest newsrooms to achieve better product-market fit and enduring revenue streams while utilizing AI.

Product professionals, journalists, technologists, and researchers from across news organizations, universities, and support organizations have come together around a shared goal: help small and local news organizations strategically use first-party data to ship quality products that respond to changing audience behavior – and to ensure they aren’t left behind as AI capabilities accelerate across the industry.

Journalists can improve their work by using a variety of AI tools beyond just writing assistants. These include transcription software, image editing software, data visualization tools, social media listening tools, and fact-checking software. By utilizing these tools, journalists can save time and produce higher quality work.

Instagram's public identity crisis is a real-time case study. Taylor Lorenz summed it all up for the Washington Post. Lorenz interviewed experts who analyzed the whole mess through more of a product lens, discussing audience trust, product iteration, and marketplace positioning.

This piece is a deep dive on strategies for making "modular storytelling formats", or formats that divide news stories into smaller pieces that can be shared and consumed according to different reader habits. The author proposes several models, according to their research.

The article describes the main points of a new National Academies of Science report. The report argues that computer scientists must start research projects with ethical review, working with stakeholders and experts from other fields. The goal is to mitigate eventual problems stemming from their inventions.

We all know there's a special tool behind platforms like Netflix and Spotify's abilities to recommend things that, often, are exactly what we're looking for. But instead of thinking of this as AI, the author posits this kind of tool as "intelligent augmentation" — a choice architecture that assists in the customized decisions that are put before users.

Reuters looks at how the Diario Huarpe newsroom leverages artificial intelligence to publish sports and weather reports, allowing its reporters to focus on providing more comprehensive coverage of the province of San Juan. The article covers how it works, some linguistic obstacles the newsroom ran into, the data necessary to these automated reports, internal reaction (resistance) to the technology, and how Diario Huarpe hopes to continue using it moving forward.