News organisations are building AI systems as technical projects with editorial consultation. They perhaps have it backwards. The implementations that succeed will treat AI as an editorial capability that requires engineering support, not the reverse. This isn’t a radical position. Across industries, leading organizations have recognized that AI transformation demands deep collaboration across functions. BlackRock’s…
We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how information reaches people. In the Internet Age, the model was passive presentation: search engines displayed ranked links, news sites offered article lists, social platforms showed feeds of options. Users chose what to read. In the Intelligence Age, information delivery is becoming active synthesis: AI companions generate answers, compile…
The AI buddy economy is reshaping how people seek expertise, guidance, and information — and journalism is uniquely positioned to lead it. To understand why, consider what happened when I returned to analogue photography after a twenty-year break. What struck me wasn’t just rediscovering this craft, but how I learned the basic skills of analogue…