New webinar: How media orgs can ensure attribution, accuracy and potential API revenue with LLMs

AI Real Talk online event series returns July 14

Join us for the return of our AI Real Talk online event series, which explores the potential benefits, risks and ethical considerations of AI in journalism and across the media landscape.

On Monday, July 14 at 12:30pm ET, join Burt and Paul and a panel of industry experts as we kick off the series to explore Model Context Protocol (MCP). The protocol presents two opportunities for media: transforming content into queryable infrastructure for AI systems, while revolutionizing how newsrooms access and analyze data internally.

​As AI assistants become the primary gateway to information, MCP enables media organizations to build servers that provide structured content directly to LLMs – ensuring attribution, accuracy and potential API revenue. Simultaneously, newsrooms can use MCP clients to seamlessly connect AI tools to court records, government databases and internal archives for enhanced reporting.

Panelists include:

• ​Florent Daudens, Press Lead, Hugging Face
• ​Shema Kalisa, Co-founder, Unido Publishing
• ​Chetan Nandakumar, Founder and CEO, Fluora.ai
• ​Jeff Smith, CEO and Co-founder of 2nd Set AI

Hacks/Hackers Receives Renewed Support to Advance AI Innovation in Journalism Programming

Hacks/Hackers will expand our popular series of webinars, talks and hackathons aimed at accelerating civic innovation through technologies like generative AI, thanks to renewed support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Over the next two years, this increased funding will help Hacks/Hackers bring together journalists, technologists, civic leaders, researchers and other stakeholders to prototype AI-powered tools and develop practical solutions to today’s media and information challenges.

AI x journalism

• Key findings of the Reuters Institute 2025 Digital News Report (Reuters Institute)
• How a journalism professor got his class to put AI to the test and think like an AI model in the process (Northeastern Global News)
• Poll finds public turning to AI bots for news updates (AFP)
• Journalism's comeback: Why pure journalists run AI (Mark Pegues, Matt Blocks)

Upcoming Events

• July 10–11, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
• Sep 3–5, St. Louis, US, Independent News Sustainability Summit
• Sep 10–13, New Orleans, US, Online News Association
• Oct 23–24, Chicago, US, News Product Alliance Summit

Jobs

• (Anywhere) Freedom of the Press Foundation, Engineering Manager 
• (UK) AFP, Data Journalist
• (US) The Advocate, Data Reporter
• (US) Texas Tribune, Designer/Developer
• (US) New York Times, Multimedia Editor Graphics
• (US) ProPublica, Social Video Producer
• (US) BBC, Senior Tech Reporter
• (US) University of Florida, Multimedia Specialist
• (US) Washington and Lee University, Assistant Professor of Digital Journalism
• (US) Institute for Nonprofit News, Research Director
• (US) Texas Tribune, Community Engagement and Events Manager
• (US) Knight Center, Executive Director