Gina Chua

In Praise of Editors If that headline doesn’t get me tons of hate mail, I don’t know what will.

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.

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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!

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An Army of Interns Do you remember news budgets?  You know, the documents that listed everything your news organization was planning to publish that day/week/month?   Do you remember reading any of the…

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.)

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AI on AI So here’s that “honest version” about how Generative AI is affecting journalism, courtesy of Claude, unedited, per my previous post, below (and with my notes below): What We Actually Know (And Most…

Plus. a guest post from Claude on journalism and AI...

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AI on AI on AI on AI… We — at least me, anyway — have a lot to say about how AI will affect journalism.  But what does AI think?Someone asked it. (Wish it had been me, but I can’t be everywhere…)  The ans…

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

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British newspaper spoke to the wrong DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter’ How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.

“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.”

Claude, Editor What are Large Language Models good at?  And why does that matter?To be sure, there’s a long list of things they’re not good at, which we spend a lot of time dwelling on — not least disce…

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.

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Archipelagos, Agents and Audiences Who do we serve in an AI age?  Or more precisely, how do we see our public service mission in an AI age? The ever-insighful Tony Haile wrote a smart piece earlier this month about how AI would…

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....

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An audience of one — and the economies of one What do you not want people to know that you don’t know?That’s the theme of a smart piece by my friend Shuwei Fang for the Shorenstein Center earlier this year that I’m shamelessly cribbing from.&n…

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

Deconstruction, Part Deux Can Gen AI help improve media literacy? When we launched Semafor three years ago, we debuted a story structure that we dubbed — what else? — the “Semaform.”The idea was that we owed it to readers t…

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....

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Deconstruction Can the technology that will likely drive us deeper into filter bubbles help us break out of them?The promise of Generative AI-intermediated news that we’ll get more personalized, more useful, more…

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:
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The Great Leveling As I lean into my new gig at CUNY and the Tow-Knight Center, I’ll be writing more and more regularly about the intersection of journalism and AI (or just AI, sometimes.)  Here’s the first in m…

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.

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Thanks, Dick!

How AI will upend the news Generative AI promises to revolutionize people’s relationship with information — and news organizations need to get ahead of that change.

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.

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Award-Winning Media Executive Gina Chua Named Executive Director of Tow-Knight Center - Newmark J-School Newmark J-School announced the appointment of Gina Chua as Executive Director of the Tow-Knight Center. Chua, currently Executive Editor at Semafor, brings nearly four decades of international media e...

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).

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There are clearly bad outcomes, but existing media isn't perfect either; can people be better served if news is more responsive to their personal situation, issues and needs? Do we all have to read one version of the news that people sitting around at table at a large news organization decide on?

It's true that in this new world, we have to rethink what we produce and how we produce it to fit/feed the new formats and outputs. I don't think we can simply that what we do and assume it can be reassembled easily.

The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale As the cost and difficulty of coding falls, how do companies adapt strategies and processes built on husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources?

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 AI can personalize ads, why not news? A future where AI can create content on the fly will upend news and the news industry.

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...

The group chats that changed America A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

🟡 NEW: The group chats that changed America
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@craigrobertson.bsky.social hi. I'm trying to contact you for a piece I'm writing about official documents and gender markers; I've emailed your Northeastern email.

Ashlee Vance launches media startup Core Memory | Semafor The company will produce high-end documentaries along with the usual “digital” products.

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.

Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick Clegg | Semafor Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.

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

Kaitlan Collins’ star rises at CNN | Semafor The 32-year-old anchor could soon be lead White House correspondent.

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