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Ulrike Langer
How Writers' Bloc wants to get small publishers paid when AI steals their work

Aug 12, 2026

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6 min read

How Writers' Bloc wants to get small publishers paid when AI steals their work

A fingerprint for every article, a watchdog for the web and AI models, and an alliance for collective bargaining. I interviewed the founder — and I'm signing up.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Which media companies are making money with AI in real life, and how are they doing it?

Aug 5, 2026

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6 min read

Which media companies are making money with AI in real life, and how are they doing it?

I found out by querying Sergei Yakupov's AI for Newsroom database for free — and so can you. Here are my analysis and some tipps for your own queries.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How to tell whether your AI visibility is worth anything

Jul 29, 2026

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5 min read

How to tell whether your AI visibility is worth anything

AI sends traffic that converts better than almost any other channel. But news publishers who get cited most are not the ones receiving it.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer

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How SPUR wants to make AI companies report what they do with your journalism

Jul 21, 2026

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9 min read

How SPUR wants to make AI companies report what they do with your journalism

Every AI licensing deal signed so far has been priced blind. A new telemetry standard is meant to end that — if AI companies agree to be measured.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Why AI agents might finally be the perfect micro-payers

Jul 14, 2026

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6 min read

Why AI agents might finally be the perfect micro-payers

AI companies are abandoning the flat rate. Here’s what news publishers can do to turn that shift to their advantage.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How TIME, The Economist and Dow Jones each decided what to expose to AI agents

Jul 7, 2026

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5 min read

How TIME, The Economist and Dow Jones each decided what to expose to AI agents

Three of the smartest names in media looked at the AI-agent future and moved in different directions, protecting their unique assets.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How a cycling website turned its newsroom tools into the product

Jul 1, 2026

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7 min read

How a cycling website turned its newsroom tools into the product

Velora Cycling looks like an AI-native publication. Seven months in, it's really a software company with a cycling site as the demo.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer

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How a War-Zone Newsroom in Ukraine Uses AI To Listen

Jun 24, 2026

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7 min read

How a War-Zone Newsroom in Ukraine Uses AI To Listen

The Kyiv Independent employs machines to learn the needs of its paying members and sends humans where machines can’t go.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer

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Why a non-techie wrote one of the most useful AI guides for newsrooms

Jun 16, 2026

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6 min read

Why a non-techie wrote one of the most useful AI guides for newsrooms

A review of Martin Schori’s “AI in the Newsroom” — three years building and running Aftonbladet’s AI hub turned into a practical guide for curious journalists and newsroom leaders

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer

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Why It’s Easy to Launch Speedboats and Hard to Bring Them Home

Jun 9, 2026

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7 min read

Why It’s Easy to Launch Speedboats and Hard to Bring Them Home

The Norwegian tabloidVG has systematized where to point AI down to one decimal place. But how innovation crosses back into the core newsroom still depends on a single person.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
How a small AI lab in Norway built a vibe-coding ladder for non-coding journalists

Jun 2, 2026

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6 min read

How a small AI lab in Norway built a vibe-coding ladder for non-coding journalists

Polaris Media Vest gave reporters who can’t code a way to build interactive tools for readers — and a clear line between the throwaway widget and the service worth maintaining.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
Why the question of whether to license AI is harder than it looks

May 27, 2026

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6 min read

Why the question of whether to license AI is harder than it looks

Three key questions sit underneath it. None of them have settled answers yet.

Ulrike Langer
Ulrike Langer
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
Ulrike Langer

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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
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
Ulrike Langer
How Village Media is Building a Moat Against AI and Platforms

Apr 28, 2026

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6 min read

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
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
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
Ulrike Langer

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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
Ulrike Langer

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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
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
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
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