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

About this episode

The episode discusses how AI is transforming newsroom operations with insights from industry leaders.

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. 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; Arlyn Gajilan, Global Editor of AI Development and Integration at Reuters; and Burt Herman, Co-Founder and Principal of Hacks/Hackers. The discussion focuses on defining questions for the news industry: Where is AI already delivering real operational impact? How should newsrooms adapt to a world of “liquid content” and AI-mediated distribution? Is human-in-the-loop governance sustainable, or is it already breaking down? As trust in news declines and trust in AI interfaces rises, what becomes journalism’s true competitive advantage? In this episode, they cover: 03:10 — Where AI is…

People in this episode

Host: Nikita Roy

Guests: Ryan Struyk, Rubina Madan Fillion, Arlyn Gajilan, Burt Herman

Topics covered

• AI in newsrooms
• journalism
• technology
• media transformation
• news production
• trust in news

Keywords

• AI
• newsroom
• journalism
• CNN
• The New York Times
• Reuters
• Hacks/Hackers
• media
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, Hacks/Hackers

Places: New York City

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