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Jan 8, 2025 | 
mediacopilot.substack.com | Christopher Allbritton
Today I’m thrilled to dive in with you on some key ways AI is up-ending a huge part of the media ecosystem: public relations. Practicing good PR has always been about skillfully creating and adapting narratives in ways that will resonate what’s happening in the world, and AI promises to accelerate every part of that process — from identifying trends to drafting the content that aligns with them.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
worth.com | Christopher Allbritton
One day in early October, a curiously designed drone climbs into the bright, crisp North Carolina sky. It resembles a flimsy, fragile model airplane with about a 12-foot wingspan, but it takes off like a helicopter. A tether snakes from the ground to a complicated web of cables and control lines attached to the drone. Within a few seconds, however, one of its motors begins to wobble.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
worth.com | Dan Costa |Caitlin Hamilton |Christopher Allbritton |Eric Iverson
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Dec 5, 2024 | worth.com | Dan Costa |Caitlin Hamilton |Christopher Allbritton |Eric Iverson
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
mediacopilot.ai | Christopher Allbritton
Mastering AI Data Scraping for Text and Video: A Guide for Journalists by Pete PachalHow to use AI scraping to extract data from websites and videos to power better journalism.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
mediacopilot.substack.com | Christopher Allbritton
For journalists today, working with data using AI and other analysis tools is crucial. But just as important is gathering that data, which isn’t always straightforward. It’s unlikely a corporation you’re investigating will hand over a nicely formatted PDF outlining all of their OSHA violations, is it? For those unfamiliar with web scraping, it’s a valuable technique for data journalists.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
mediacopilot.substack.com | Christopher Allbritton
If you pay attention to what’s going on in AI, you’ve no doubt heard about Google NotebookLM. The Gemini-powered tool, released months ago, is a fairly straightforward AI project assistant: you feed it documents, transcripts, instructions and even YouTube videos, and then you can essentially “chat” with that information.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Christopher Allbritton
Christopher Allbritton/CNN Underscored It’s comforting to watch Apple iterate on its basic watch design year after year. You can always count on a new Series-whatever watch, a new SE and, for the past two years, a new Apple Watch Ultra. It was reliable, predictable, a calm port in a storm of technological and chronometric uncertainty. This year, not so much. Apple tricked us all with no updates to the entry-level Apple Watch SE, and the Ultra 2 got a paint job. (It’s black.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
mediacopilot.substack.com | Christopher Allbritton
How often have we wanted to have knowledge piped directly into our brains so that after a few seconds, we know Spanish? Or kung fu? (Knock, knock, Neo.) As journalists, we're often assigned topics and stories outside our wheelhouse, like power grids or complex energy markets or B sides from Hanson. AI can help us gather reliable information quickly when we’re on deadline.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
mediacopilot.substack.com | Christopher Allbritton
It’s been a few years since my mind was blown by Otter, one of the original apps to do AI-powered transcription. Not only was the text reasonably accurate — the UI was inspired, letting the user tap on any word to start playback at that point. As a journalist, I instantly saw how it could save me tons of time. Now, AI transcription is everywhere. A bevy of apps, and features within apps, are up to the task, but which ones have standout features, and what are the best ways to make use of them?
