John Hashimoto

This is aging so well.

Evan Armstrong in The Leverage Happy robot week everyone! Last week I published a piece on the mental models for how these companies compete. Over the next few days I'll be publishing a profile on what Doordash is doing in robots a...

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Collateral Damage How Decades of Corporate Dealmaking Has Put CNN at Risk

Talk about media turbulence. CNN is about to get its fifth owner—and the network’s fourth in just the past 25 years.

Where will the company that Ted built land, and what does it mean for the future of trustworthy, boots-on-the-ground TV news?

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Investigating the Department of Government Efficiency Our reporting team discusses DOGE and how Elon Musk and his associates are remaking the federal bureaucracy.

Looking forward to this DOGE deep dive by the "no stone unturned" team at ProPublica. www.propublica.org/events/inves...

About Those Southern Accents on This Season of The White Lotus “No one has ever said that there is anything unique about a couple of vowels in Durham,” says Walt Wolfram, a North Carolina linguist.

"It's a whole thang" is right. Enjoy this cultural moment before it passes, Heels. indyweek.com/culture/abou...

There is a 99.99% chance this Hail Mary ends up exploding in UNC's face.

Enjoy some of the best -- and eye opening -- reporting and distinctive storytelling of 2024, a year when North Carolina was often in the national conversation. Local news matters -- even beyond borders.

Innovation is a team sport. I'm thrilled to be joining forces with @DorrineMendoza, @LiamAndrew, and the Product and AI Studio team at #AmericanJournalismProject as a product strategy consultant from Frontiers, assisting these innovative newsrooms as they shape the future.

From experimentation to action: What’s next for AJP’s Product & AI Studio - American Journalism Project AJP announces $1.4M in grants to 27 newsrooms, supporting AI-driven solutions to boost revenue and uncover impactful stories from civic data.

Excited to be working with the Product and AI Studio team at the American Journalism Project to assist these newsrooms as they start to shape the future through innovation ... and hard work.

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These games by @itseieio.bsky.social are masterpieces of inventiveness:

Wordle in the Firefox search bar 🤯
Flappy Bird in the MacOS finder 🤯🤯
Doom in the iPhone photos app 🤯🤯🤯

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Martial law mayhem in South Korea? I turned to ChatGPT when even the New York Times left questions unanswered. The future of news is conversational—and it’s coming fast. #AI

Gotta believe the future of news is not just about vertical-social video (again!), but conversational news agents. No wonder we're spending so much time sandboxing this at @frontiers-hq.bsky.social #FutureofNews

Miles To Go: Episode 38: Not a Landslide, but too Big to Rig - with Alex Halderman In this conversation, Miles O'Brien and J. Alex Halderman discuss the critical issues surrounding election security, focusing on the importance of trust, the vulnerabilities of local voting systems, a...

Not a landslide, but too big to rig. A 2024 Election post-mortem with Alex Halderman. milestogo.libsyn.com/episode-38-n...

So THIS is where everyone's been hanging out since Twitter went to hell. Yay!!! So happy to be here. 👋

Can't let a two-year "Big Bang" anniversary go by without a launch 🎺 of my own. Say hello to Frontiers.

Where’s meh?

Best Black Friday deal in journalism.