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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
Ulrike Langer
Why I Write With AI

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ulrike Langer
Why London matters for your AI strategy

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
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
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
Ulrike Langer
AI in Journalism: How Five Patterns Separate Success from Expensive Experimentation

Dec 16, 2025

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6 min read

AI in Journalism: How Five Patterns Separate Success from Expensive Experimentation

News Machines has published a Gen AI industry report and is launching a Premium Club

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How Mobile Stories Teaches Gen Z to Trust News by Making Them Producers

Dec 9, 2025

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10 min read

How Mobile Stories Teaches Gen Z to Trust News by Making Them Producers

A Swedish nonprofit embeds journalism ethics into youth publishing workflows. Now they're asking: What role should AI play?

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Why Audience Teams Matter More in the AI Era

Dec 2, 2025

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10 min read

Why Audience Teams Matter More in the AI Era

Transformation expert Dimitry Shishkin argues for elevating audience expertise to executive level

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Wait, Wait - They Really Did This?

Nov 25, 2025

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11 min read

Wait, Wait - They Really Did This?

Test your knowledge with this fun little GenAI news quiz

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Why The Atlantic Uses AI for Password Resets - But Not for Journalism

Nov 18, 2025

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10 min read

Why The Atlantic Uses AI for Password Resets - But Not for Journalism

Product chief Mariah Craddick on AI and paywall strategy, Signalgate and why simple often wins

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Why Particle News Is Betting on Comprehensive Stories, Not Individual Articles

Nov 11, 2025

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9 min read

Why Particle News Is Betting on Comprehensive Stories, Not Individual Articles

Ex-Twitter executives built a news app that wants you to stay informed without endlessly scrolling

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer

Bundling

How Mediahuis reaches new audiences with bundles of repackaged stories

Nov 4, 2025

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7 min read

How Mediahuis reaches new audiences with bundles of repackaged stories

European publisher sets quality bar: journalism must lead to “time well spent” or it's not worth making

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How Hearken’s Jennifer Brandel Thinks About Building Real Engagement

Oct 28, 2025

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10 min read

How Hearken’s Jennifer Brandel Thinks About Building Real Engagement

Actual experience versus artificial intelligence: Exploring collective journalism models as a Knight Fellow

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
The Onion's AI Strategy: Why Satire Can't Be Automated

Oct 21, 2025

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10 min read

The Onion's AI Strategy: Why Satire Can't Be Automated

How Ben Collins is building The Onion's future by rejecting AI-generated comedy

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How YESEO analyzed 60,000 AI-generated headlines and decided to pivot to paid source tracking

Oct 14, 2025

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8 min read

How YESEO analyzed 60,000 AI-generated headlines and decided to pivot to paid source tracking

The Slack-based tool YESEO is looking for 10 partner newsrooms in the US and beyond to test new paid features for free - application deadline October 24

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How a San Diego Nonprofit Newsroom Uses AI to Build Brand Affinity

Oct 7, 2025

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7 min read

How a San Diego Nonprofit Newsroom Uses AI to Build Brand Affinity

inewsource reaches 350,000 readers monthly with a 20-person team. Their AI strategy? Make journalism more accessible while keeping humans firmly in control.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How Deutsche Welle is reducing the workload of content adaptation with plain X

Sep 30, 2025

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9 min read

How Deutsche Welle is reducing the workload of content adaptation with plain X

An AI-assisted platform makes transcription, translation, and subtitling of videos more efficient

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How the Toronto Star Built an Engaged News Community

Sep 23, 2025

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7 min read

How the Toronto Star Built an Engaged News Community

AI-powered community engagement drove subscriptions and editorial innovation at Canada's largest daily newspaper

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How iTromsø Built Norway's Most AI-Ready Newsroom

Sep 16, 2025

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10 min read

How iTromsø Built Norway's Most AI-Ready Newsroom

A small Norwegian news outlet above the Arctic Circle has become the North Star for journalism's AI future

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
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