It has been tremendously hard to even consider the loss of Neema Roshania Patel. She was the founding editor of the Next Gen team. I can't imagine doing this work without her, but I also know how passionate she was about building the future and mentoring
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In 2019, I covered a government shutdown through the eyes of Coast Guard families, whose paychecks were withheld.
One woman I interviewed for that story cried while speaking to me. Another said she had cried repeatedly.
Real people get caught in the middle in these moments.
#MadridAIForum Tres aprendizajes de The Washington Post con Phoebe Connelly, editora senior y estratega de IA e Innovation:
1. Implementar la AI considerando los humanos que la usarán y no sólo la tecnología.
2. Embarcarse tan pronto como el producto sea viable.
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“The Post’s participants appear to be intentionally turning to TikTok after momentous political events, spending about nine more minutes on the app, on average, on days when major political events occur.”
NEW: political content shown on TikTok can depend on your gender—women received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, while men (including liberal ones) were more likely to be shown videos about Trump
w/ @jeremybmerrill@viaCristiano
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Coming up this Wednesday, 10/16 at 6pm ET, the OPC will host a session online to discuss use of A.I. in newsrooms, with @phoebedoris, @rubinafillion, @aimeetwoee & @ElyseSamuels - RSVP here: https://t.co/RPX3iKLIBl
“If someone hit her with his fists, he would get arrested,” Allen said. “But he hit her with a car, so he just gets a ticket and can walk away.” https://t.co/8FiSpFmzZS
Great gig! The Washington Post is looking for an experienced, analytical and experimental journalist to serve as Newsletters Director. https://t.co/LpaRnNwQ7c
"We were working on AI principles, and they kept coming put as journalism principles" @zseward@phoebedoris and @NewsEdJane discussing AI in news, and the importance of anchoring strategy and use in clear, shared editorial values, at #ReutersMOMENTUM
How should we think about AI in terms of relationship btw publishers & platforms, @NewsEdJane asks
"The mistake we made in the past is that we focused on the tech, not on our users. Maybe we will make that mistake again. But I hope we leverage AI for our users" @phoebedoris says
We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them
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It was a long, hard year of work. So proud of everyone in the teams who worked together to bring these stories to life, and particularly @n_kirkpatrick@atthar_mirza@canalesgraphics