AI Research Assistants: A Comparative AnalysisTesting 7 LLM Tools for Literature ReviewMar 271Mar 271
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomAI Overviews, Chatbots, and News Traffic: The Story So FarAnalyzing Referral Traffic in the Early Days of AI-Powered SearchMar 26Mar 26
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomGenAI as News Gatekeeper? What Traffic Data ShowsAnalysis of Comscore data shows that GenAI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity send little traffic to news publishers.Mar 6Mar 6
New release: Substack API Python package 1.0Today, I’m excited to announce the 1.0 release of my Substack API Python package. This represents a significant overhaul from the previous…Mar 2Mar 2
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomBeyond Platform Fact-Checking: The Promise and Limits of AI VerificationAs Meta steps back from centralized fact-checking, could AI and user-driven tools fill the gap?Feb 10Feb 10
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomBuilding Privacy-First Text Analysis Tools for NewsroomsCombining DuckDB, SQL, and local LLMs for efficient and secure document analysisFeb 31Feb 31
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomPersonalizing Newsletter Headlines: Testing LLMs Against Human EditorsA controlled study shows readers prefer AI-generated headlines 62% of the time — while keeping core editorial decisions in human handsJan 21Jan 21
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomStructured Outputs: Making LLMs Reliable for Document ProcessingA guide — and prototype — for getting clean data out of PDFsDec 5, 20241Dec 5, 20241
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomTesting OpenAI’s o1 Models: A Look at Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Journalism TasksNew LLMs are touted as smarter problem-solvers — but how do they fare in real-world journalistic tasks like data visualization and…Oct 23, 2024Oct 23, 2024
Published inGenerative AI in the NewsroomDo People Want to Get Their News from Chatbots?What data from real-world LLM interactions tells usSep 12, 2024Sep 12, 2024
New release: Substack Python packageLightweight API wrapper for Substack dataApr 13, 2024Apr 13, 2024
LLM-generated labels for topic classificationCan synthetic data replace human annotators?Mar 17, 2024Mar 17, 2024
What should platform data collection look like now?Stronger tools for more difficult dataFeb 28, 2024Feb 28, 2024
New research — On TikTok, news is hard to findLessons from an algorithm auditSep 13, 2023Sep 13, 2023