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How did the Toronto Star build an engaged news community and increase subscriptions ? By enhancing reader discussions around off-leash dogs in parks and ice cream parlor reviews drives audience. This strategy and more in News Machines: newsmachines.beehiiv.com/p/how-the-to...

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

This week’s case study in News Machines: How iTromsø is systematically building AI infrastructure instead of just stacking up AI tools and how their data-driven stories can be re-used many times. English: newsmachines.beehiiv.com/p/how-itroms.... Deutsch: newsmaschinen.beehiiv.com/p/wie-itroms...

Wie iTromsø Norwegens KI-bereiteste Redaktion aufgebaut hat Eine kleine norwegische Zeitungs-Website nördlich des Polarkreises gilt als Nordstern für die KI-Zukunft des Journalismus

Ganz starker Artikel von @ulrikelanger.bsky.social im Newsletter Newsmaschinen: Wie iTromsø Norwegens KI-bereiteste Redaktion aufgebaut hat – Eine kleine norwegische Zeitung nördlich des Polarkreises gilt als Nordstern für die KI-Zukunft des Journalismus: newsmaschinen.beehiiv.com/p/wie-itroms...

Danke, Thomas!

2/2/ It's a newsletter mainly for journalists and newsroom leaders. Those English are well-known in Germany. It would sound weird to use German words that nobody in the industry actually uses. I fact, my translation tool DeepL often translates too much and then I have to translate those words back.

News Machines English edition | News Machines | Ulrike Langer | Substack This is the News Machines newsletter in English. Same content, different language. (Posts from before 4/15/25 are available only in German as of now, but I might translate some of them into English.)....

Hi David, thanks for taking the trouble to read my newsletter in German if that's not your native language. There is also an English mirror edition (but the Substack mobile app doesn not display it): newsmachines.substack.com/s/english About my use of English terms in the German version: 1/2

2/2/ It's maddening that on the Substack mobile app I can choose to only display the German but the English version or vice versa but not both. As if I was the first ever to publish in two languages. Let's stay in touch!

News Machines English edition | News Machines | Ulrike Langer | Substack This is the News Machines newsletter in English. Same content, different language. (Posts from before 4/15/25 are available only in German as of now, but I might translate some of them into English.)....

Hi Emma, I should have tagged you here, but I forgot. 😔Just want to mention how much I value I got out of your presentation at @hackshackers.com Baltimore. By the way: My newsletter is bilingual. Since early April I have published English /German mirror editions. newsmachines.substack.com/s/english

How Lars the Tax Bot Helped the WSJ Realize AI Could Make the Front Page Inside The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Shift: From Niche Experimentation to Routine AI Generated First Drafts for Market Updates on the Digital Front Page

The Wall Street Journal recently dared to do something that no major national newspaper in the USA has dared to do before. An AI-generated report on the homepage. Read all about this carefully planned endeavor and the strategy on my newsletter News Machines: newsmachines.substack.com/p/how-lars-t...

How The Baltimore Banner gained valuable audience insights from AI-powered content tagging The Pulitzer-prize winning local news outlet developed an AI-powered story classification system, tested it with 1,400 Orioles articles and learned: Focus less on stats and more on people

A new AI-powered content tagging system. Tests with 1,400 Orioles baseball team reports, 6 LLMs and 8 prompt iterations. Value: Learn, which content leads to subscription conversions. Cost: $50. See the whole Baltimore Banner case study at News Machines: newsmachines.substack.com/p/baltimore-...

How does Village Media build local news villages in Canada and now also in the U.S.? I'm exploring their back to roots concept, powered with AI, in my new newsletter: newsmachines.substack.com/p/village-me... (English version) , newsmachines.substack.com/p/village-me... (German version)

Wie der Philadelphia Inquirer mit KI sein riesiges Archiv erschließt Eine der ältesten Zeitungen der USA will mit semantischer Suche, Agenten und Personas seinen Journalisten effizientere Recherche in Archivmaterial ermöglichen

Der fast 200 Jahre alte Philadelphia Inquirer setzt KI ein, um mit weniger Zeitaufwand mehr aus seinem Archiv herauszuholen. Wie das funktioniert und warum davon auch andere Medienunternehmen profitieren - darum geht es heute in meinem Newsletter. newsmachines.substack.com/p/philadelph...

Good catch!

Trump extorts a major law firm — then lies to make the deal sound even worse To make the humiliation complete, Donald Trump has apparently lied about the agreement he reached with Brad Karp, chair of the law firm Paul Weiss, in order to cast the terms of surrender as being …

Law firm Paul Weiss thought it could buy itself into Trump's grace for the price $40 mill. What it reaped instead is a shitstorm that will cost it far more. Not only because of Rachel Cohen. But also because Trump turned this bad deal into an even worse PR disaster, says @dankennedy.net

Die KI-Strategie der @texastribune.org ist ebenso innovativ wie simpel. Alle eingesetzten Tool machen den Lesern oder den Redakteuren die Nutzung einfacher. Und jedes Tool wird transparent kommuniziert. Mehr dazu bei newsmachines.substack.com

I hope you’re right @simonowens.bsky.social but I believe before that happens, a lot more people will have to experience deep pain themselves, because they clearly don’t care what’s happening to others.

Einmal produzieren, vielfach teuer verkaufen Modulare Content-Systeme: Wie Bloomberg und The New York Times strukturierte Content-Architekturen für exklusive Premium-Abos nutzen

Neuer Post bei News Machines newsmachines.substack.com/p/modulare-c...

Tech-Trends für die Medienbranche: Was auf der SXSW 2025 wichtig wird Die weltweit wichtigste Tech- und Digitalkonferenz South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, steht unmittelbar bevor. kress-Korrespondentin Ulrike Langer stellt vorab die drei wichtigsten Trends für...

Die Tech-Konferenz South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, steht unmittelbar bevor. Bei Kress stelle ich vorab die drei wichtigsten Trends für Publisher vor, darunter "Trust Engineering": Wie Medien KI-generierte Propaganda und Deepfakes effizienter bekämpfen können. kress.de/news/beitrag...

It Was an Ambush Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

There have been many low points in only 5 weeks of Trump administration, but this is a turning point from which the U.S. cannot easily recover, even if the next president is a Democrat and the next congress is dominated by Democrats. The whole world is shocked. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It might not have been the @washingtonpost.com ‘s first choice to let @davejorgenson.bsky.social post on his own channel, but I think he has all the leverage here. He already has enough followers to be a brand on his own.

At least he chose a suitable background color for his message to the world. Democracy dies in darkness and so does the @washingtonpost.com .

You chose the background color for your announcement well, Jeff Bezos. Democracy dies in darkness. And so does a once proud and great newspaper. This should be the last nail in the coffin.

Mit Newsletter-spezifischen Analytics lokale Newsletter optimieren Case Study: Wie die lokale Website Lookout in Kooperation mit der Analyse-Plattform Glueletter Leserengagement analysiert und Einnahmequellen optimiert

Neuer Post auf meinem Newsletter News Machines: open.substack.com/pub/newsmach...

Opinion | James Carville: The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment (Gift Article) There’s nothing Democrats can legitimately do to stop Trump, so we need a tactical pause in our fight to plan for the future.

This NYT analysis is spot on. No more trying to save Republicans from themselves and then letting them take the credit. They can't govern, so let them try in vain. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

That is good news and correlates with my own observations of Bluesky vs Threads. Tried both, now concentrating on Bluesky. Forced algorithms in the news feed are poison for meaningful engagement. Let users choose between algorithmic/chronological. And devaluing links like Threads does is the worst.

HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

@hannescools.bsky.social Hi Hannes, as a long time media innovation journalist, currently mainly focusing on media and AI, I would love to be in your journalism & AI starter pack. Thank you in advance, Ulrike

@newsjennifer.bsky.social Hi Jennifer, I'd love to be in your fearless media starter pack. Btw: I'm also a fellow Ex-Seattleite (lived there from 2011 to 2024). Best, Ulrike

Next step for covering Trump: Replace the words "radical change" with "illegal coup".