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 Zetland wants to conquer Europe with journalism people trust and care about

May 19, 2026

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5 min read

How Zetland wants to conquer Europe with journalism people trust and care about

Legacy media has lost the plot on why readers should care. Zetland believes it has found a solution in the age of AI - and is now taking it across Europe. Germany is next.

Ulrike Langer

Reroute NJ: How a Pop-up Website Served 2,000 Commuters a Day

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

Reroute NJ: How a Pop-up Website Served 2,000 Commuters a Day

Built in a day, closed in a month: The case for ephemeral websites in journalism

Ulrike Langer

Local journalism doesn't have to be a charity case

May 5, 2026

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13 min read

Local journalism doesn't have to be a charity case

AI now makes a portfolio model possible for more newsrooms than ever. But senior editors have to run it.

Ulrike Langer

How Village Media is Building a Moat Against AI and Platforms

Richard Gingras on defending against scrapers, reporters as information gatherers and why licensing news to LLMs will not save news publishers

Ulrike Langer

How a German Startup Won The Atlantic for Its Translation Network

Apr 22, 2026

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5 min read

How a German Startup Won The Atlantic for Its Translation Network

Kompreno curates quality journalism in five languages and shares revenue with publishers

Ulrike Langer

How a 21-Year-Old Swede Competed with a 150-Year-Old Bonnier Paper - and Built a Product Doing It

Apr 15, 2026

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8 min read

How a 21-Year-Old Swede Competed with a 150-Year-Old Bonnier Paper - and Built a Product Doing It

Ahody started as an internal fix for a two-person newsroom. Now it’s a startup with paying customers, a publisher as an investor and plans to go global

Ulrike Langer

Why Reddit Is Suddenly Serious About Publishers - and Why You Should Be Too

Apr 8, 2026

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10 min read

Why Reddit Is Suddenly Serious About Publishers - and Why You Should Be Too

Reddit spent two decades as journalism's best-kept secret. Now AI has made it infrastructure.

Ulrike Langer

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

Mar 10, 2026

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7 min read

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

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New posts

How Zetland wants to conquer Europe with journalism people trust and care about

Reroute NJ: How a Pop-up Website Served 2,000 Commuters a Day

Local journalism doesn't have to be a charity case

Archive

How Village Media is Building a Moat Against AI and Platforms

How a German Startup Won The Atlantic for Its Translation Network

How a 21-Year-Old Swede Competed with a 150-Year-Old Bonnier Paper - and Built a Product Doing It

Why Reddit Is Suddenly Serious About Publishers - and Why You Should Be Too

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

How Locunity Covers Local Meetings Nobody Attends

What a Vibe Coded App Should Tell Publishers About User Needs

Why I Write With AI

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

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

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

What Publishers Need to Know About the AI Citation Economy

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