News Machines

News Machines analyzes how news media in the U.S. and worldwide are innovating with AI. One new case study every week.

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How Reuters Is Building AI Into a Newsroom of 2,600 Journalists

Mar 31, 2026

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11 min read

How Reuters Is Building AI Into a Newsroom of 2,600 Journalists

The wire service has developed platforms and a governance framework to turn journalist-built AI tools into enterprise infrastructure

Ulrike Langer

How Locunity Covers Local Meetings Nobody Attends

Mar 24, 2026

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8 min read

How Locunity Covers Local Meetings Nobody Attends

Automated civic reporting is here. This is what it looks like in practice.

Ulrike Langer

What a Vibe Coded App Should Tell Publishers About User Needs

Mar 17, 2026

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9 min read

What a Vibe Coded App Should Tell Publishers About User Needs

Legacy media, especially in German-speaking countries, has been slow in responding to users' needs. Now this reluctance is coming back to bite them.

Ulrike Langer

Why I Write With AI

Nine months with Claude made me a better journalist

Ulrike Langer

How a Gamified News App Is Trying to Make Facts Compete With TikTok

Mar 3, 2026

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8 min read

How a Gamified News App Is Trying to Make Facts Compete With TikTok

InPress turns reader emotions into behavioral data - and sells the behavioral data to publishers. A conversation with founder and CEO Adam Harder.

Ulrike Langer

How CT Mirror Cut Meeting Coverage Time by 75 Percent with AI

Feb 24, 2026

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10 min read

How CT Mirror Cut Meeting Coverage Time by 75 Percent with AI

The nonprofit newsroom launched its video transcription tool in early February. Now it’s reaping the rewards of listening to newsroom needs.

Ulrike Langer

Why News Publishers Are Split Between Optimizing for AI Scrapers and Fighting Them

Feb 17, 2026

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9 min read

Why News Publishers Are Split Between Optimizing for AI Scrapers and Fighting Them

Early approaches produced traffic losses and unclear outcomes - now some publishers bet on either individual optimization or collective bargaining

Ulrike Langer

What Publishers Need to Know About the AI Citation Economy

Feb 11, 2026

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11 min read

What Publishers Need to Know About the AI Citation Economy

Stacker's pivot to GEO reveals how content visibility changes when news consumption moves to AI interfaces. How to build topical authority, visibility and direct revenue when AI answers replace clicks

Ulrike Langer

Why Aftonbladet's Readers Reject AI Articles - But Embrace AI Chatbots

Feb 3, 2026

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8 min read

Why Aftonbladet's Readers Reject AI Articles - But Embrace AI Chatbots

Schibsted's flagship newspaper spent over two years experimenting. Now comes the reckoning.

Ulrike Langer

How newsrooms move from AI pilots to infrastructure

Jan 27, 2026

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10 min read

How newsrooms move from AI pilots to infrastructure

Build in-house or seek partners - after 3+ years with GenAI, the time is up for just experimenting with AI tools

Ulrike Langer

Jan 20, 2026

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13 min read

Why London matters for your AI strategy

The UK bet on Washington over Brussels. Now U.S. AI companies are arriving in force. A guide for media executives watching from the continent - and from across the Atlantic.

Ulrike Langer

Why OpenAI cares about your city council coverage

Jan 13, 2026

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7 min read

Why OpenAI cares about your city council coverage

AI companies need reliable local information to train their models. Your archive has it.

Ulrike Langer

How Crosstown Finds Stories Hidden in Municipal Data

Jan 6, 2026

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14 min read

How Crosstown Finds Stories Hidden in Municipal Data

A machine learning platform has been generating 114 Los Angeles neighborhood newsletters from one template for years. Now it's a white-label service for newsrooms, and GenAI is expanding what it can find.

Ulrike Langer