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Gina Chua
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Executive Editor at global news startup Semafor; formerly Reuters, SCMP and WSJ. TJA member. Exploring new forms of journalism and where the profession is heading.
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Some thoughts on how our writing will evolve — no more scintillating leads and witty kickers? — if we're writing news mostly for machines and AI agents to read and summarize for human users instead of directly for humans. My latest post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY.

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Attention Spans
Are you the sort of person who loves stories that start with a question?
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February 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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We wanted to make it easier to figure out what all the Nieman Lab predictions said, so we built a RAG (and a chatbot.) But really what we wanted to figure out was how to build a RAG and a chatbot. Follow along!
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The Future of Predictions
My chatbot read 511 Nieman Lab predictions so you don’t have to.
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February 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Dispatches from the (near) future: My latest post for the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY, about how the way we create and consume news may be changing faster than we think.

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Dispatches From The Future
Objects in the front windscreen may be nearer than they appear — with apologies to Meat Loaf
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February 9, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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The LLMs reply: What Claude and ChatGPT have to say about my last post about Structured Journalism.

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WWCD?
What Would Claude (or ChatGPT) Do?
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February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Updating the circa-2010 idea of Structured Journalism for the LLM Age; my latest for the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at CUNY. (Claude and ChatGPT will push back later in the week...)

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Restructuring Structured Journalism: A Manifesto (of Sorts)
Well, this is a blast from the past.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Trust, and verification: Why do people seem better disposed to chatbots than to news orgs, despite hallucinations? It may have less to do with LLM's features and more the way we interact with them. My latest post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY.

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You Talkin’ To Me?
Why do people trust chatbots more than they trust humans?
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January 26, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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What's on my mind about AI and journalism: We have to be in two minds about it. A post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY about the contradictions we have to juggle when we strategize for an AI-intermediated world of news.
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Both Sides Now
It’s 2026: Do you know where your newsroom is?
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January 19, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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My partner in crime at @towknight.bsky.social Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures, @adielkaplan.bsky.social Adiel Kaplan writes today about the changing — sometimes mysterious — world of metrics in an AI landscape. Plus: A survey! We know you'd love to fill it out. Please do!

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What Metrics Matter? Two Case Studies. And a Survey.
Today’s post comes from Adiel, the Tow-Knight Center’s Program Director.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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A conclave of editors: A look at how three different LLMs approach the same editing exercise, and how that might help us design systems to take advantage of their different strengths/approaches. My latest post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY. restructurednews.substack.com/p/a-conclave...
A Conclave (or Cacophony) of Editors
Three LLMs walk into a bar…
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January 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Musings about money, and the value of content in an AI world; it needs to be married with audience engagement and understanding in this new landscape. My last 2025 post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY's Newmark School.

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Is Content King?
How will news publishers make money in an age of AI?
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December 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Could we better serve more of our readers by building internal AI avatars of them to advocate for stories that speak to their needs and perspectives? Can we build machines to get us past our blind spots? My latest post for the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at CUNY.
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The Blind Spot Machine
Who is the news for?
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December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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@ginaskchua.bsky.social: “If we don’t, we risk ceding the space to companies that will optimize for engagement, not civic participation.”

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December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Every year, Nieman Labs asks how journalism will change in the coming year. My prediction this year is about how audiences will change — and how we need to adapt if we want to stay relevant and fulfill our public service mission.

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Pressured by chatbots, newsrooms push past the one-story-fits-all model
"If we don't, we risk ceding the space to companies that will optimize for engagement, not civic participation."
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December 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Who should we think of as the core journalism user of AI tools: the savviest, or the laziest reporter in the newsroom — or someone else? Musings on meeting in the middle. My latest post for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY's journalism school.

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Meeting in The Middle
Who uses AI tools?
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December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Some thoughts about where the audience for news is going — and what we can do about it. (And no, it's not for the Nieman Labs prediction issue, although hopefully that comes out soon too...) This one is for CJR's issue on journalism in 2025: www.cjr.org/analysis/wha...
How an AI-mediated world transforms news consumption.
How an AI-mediated world transforms news consumption.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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If who you know matters as much as what you know, what's the most effective way to extract, store and present relationship data? An experiment with LLMs, a throwback to old projects, and thoughts about what we could try next. My post for this week. Please subscribe!

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Who You Know
“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
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December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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This week's post on my substack: On a fascinating idea to try to ground LLMs in — if not truth, at least in sourcing — and what that could mean for journalism and public interesting information. Plus, structured journalism.

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The Facts of Life
How does an LLM know if something is true?
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December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Watching Claude adapt to your style as you work with it is both fascinating and terrifying — and speaks both to the ability to fine-tune it with use and the uncertainty about which version is working at any given time...

My latest post: Why my Claude isn't like your Claude

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My Claude is Not Your Claude
Why doesn’t your Claude act like my Claude?
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November 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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My latest post, about the multiple roles editors play in newsrooms, from steering reporters in the right direction, to helping them craft compelling narratives, to finding typos and nit-picking language. And whether AI can help on those tasks.

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In Praise of Editors
If that headline doesn’t get me tons of hate mail, I don’t know what will.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Some news: Starting today, the Tow-Knight Center will be the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures-Knight, with a focus on how generative AI will change how people find, access and consume news and information, and how journalism needs to meet that moment to fulfill our mission
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I'm moving my 15-year-old blog to Substack. My first post there — about that BBC/EBU study about the quality of AI-intermediated news, and what it does — and doesn't — say about how people are coming to news. Please subscribe. It's free!

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November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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What could you do with an army of interns? Could they alleviate the information overload issue? My latest post about creative uses of AI avatars — and one of my last posts there before I migrate the site later this week.... (I'll send a note out soon.)

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An Army of Interns
Do you remember news budgets?  You know, the documents that listed everything your news organization was planning to publish that day/week/month?   Do you remember reading any of the…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Plus. a guest post from Claude on journalism and AI...

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AI on AI
So here’s that “honest version” about how Generative AI is affecting journalism, courtesy of Claude, unedited, per my previous post, below (and with my notes below): What We Actually Know (And Most…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Let's ask AI with AI thinks about journalism and AI — and then ask AI to critique what AI thinks of AI on journalism and AI, and then ask AI to... you get the idea. Plus, a guest post from Claude on AI and journalism. It's recursive Monday here at the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY

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AI on AI on AI on AI…
We — at least me, anyway — have a lot to say about how AI will affect journalism.  But what does AI think?Someone asked it. (Wish it had been me, but I can’t be everywhere…)  The ans…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Gina Chua
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“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell on Long Island.

“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”
British newspaper spoke to the wrong DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter’
How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM