Live Recording with Dalit Shalom

About this episode

Dalit Shalom discusses her role in product design at The New York Times and her focus on storytelling and AI initiatives.

This week on the DesignThinkers podcast, I’m joined by Dalit Shalom. Dalit is the Director of Product Design at The New York Times where she oversees the creation of new formats, spaces and tools that advance the future of storytelling. She also leads Design and Strategy for various work streams for the company's AI initiates, having previously focused on trust and credibility by developing features that clarify Times journalism for its readers. An educator as well as a practitioner, Da...

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Guest: Dalit Shalom

Topics covered

• product design
• storytelling
• AI initiatives
• journalism
• education

Keywords

• Dalit Shalom
• product design
• The New York Times
• storytelling
• AI
• journalism
• education

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Organizations: The New York Times

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