Newsroom Robots

Looking to explore the intersection of AI and journalism? Influential thought leaders in the industry join data scientist and media entrepreneur, Nikita Roy, each week to explore what's next with AI and its implications for the media landscape. In each episode, industry experts discuss how automated newsrooms have the potential to change journalism and uncover opportunities to optimize workflows and increase efficiency without compromising journalistic integrity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Newsroom Robots is a technology podcast hosted by Nikita Roy, with 87 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nikita Roy hosts Newsroom Robots, a technology show with 87 episodes published.

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  Episode #88

  Kevin Delaney & Jim Friedlich: How The San Francisco Standard is Reinventing the News App

  May 30, 202658 minS0

  <p>For most of journalism’s history, the article has been the atomic unit of news: a fixed container, written once and served the same way to everyone. That’s beginning to change. AI is moving out from behind the scenes, where it quietly powered efficiencies, and into the interface itself, where it can assemble, personalize, and adapt the news to each reader.</p><br><p><br></p><p>On this week’s episode of Newsroom Robots, host, Nikita Roy speaks with Jim Friedlich, Executive Director and CEO of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, and Kevin Delaney, Editor-in-Chief of The San Fr...

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  Episode #86

  Kati Erwert & Tristan Loper: How The Seattle Times uses AI to drive revenue in local news

  Apr 12, 202658 minS0

  <p>At The Seattle Times, an AI tool identified a new prospect and helped close additional ad revenue in a single day. The Seattle Times is one of 11 news organizations participating in the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program, funded by OpenAI and Microsoft. Through this initiative, AI engineering fellow Rajesh Barade worked with the advertising team to address their challenges and developed a prospecting agent. This tool enables sales representatives to enter a category or focus area, identify businesses spending in that market, find decision-makers, access advertising spend data, and generate personalized outreach.</p><br><p><br></p><p>...

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  Episode #87

  Kat Downs Mulder: Inside Yahoo’s AI Strategy for the Future of News

  Mar 13, 202646 minS0

  <p>For years, the aggregator model was simple: curate the best journalism from thousands of publishers and send audiences their way. Now that contract is being rewritten, and Yahoo News is one of the most interesting places to watch it happen.</p><br><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy speaks with Kat Downs Mulder, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo News, about how the platform is layering AI across every surface of a product that reaches an estimated 180 million people in the U.S. alone each month. Kat previously spent more...

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  Episode #85

  CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, and Hacks/Hackers on AI in the Newsroom: In Conversation with Arlyn Gajilan, Burt Herman, Ryan Struyk and Rubina Madan Fillion

  Mar 2, 202643 minS0

  <p>AI is settling in as infrastructure within newsrooms, a layer quietly reshaping how journalists discover information, how stories move through production, and how audiences increasingly expect news to reach them.</p><br><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Newsroom Robots, recorded live in New York City at TV News Check’s News Tech Forum, host Nikita Roy brings together four industry leaders to examine the tangible ways AI is transforming newsroom operations. The conversation features Ryan Struyk, Director of AI Initiatives at CNN; Rubina Madan Fillion, Associate Editorial Director of AI Initiatives at The New York Times; Ar...

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  Episode #84

  Uli Köppen: How Bavarian Broadcasting is preparing for an AI-mediated future where trusted content wins

  Mar 2, 202647 minS0

  <p>Most major newsrooms have now moved beyond early experimentation with AI. The main challenge now is determining how to govern effectively, scale consistently, and strategically position AI across the entire organization—while maintaining public trust as a central priority.</p><br><p><br></p><p>This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy sits down with Uli Köppen, Chief AI Officer at Bavarian Broadcasting (BR), to talk about what it really looks like to lead AI strategy inside one of Europe’s largest public broadcasting networks.</p><br><p><br></p><p>Uli makes a compelling case for why e...

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