Fantastic news that the great Mark Iype (my former Edmonton Journal editor) will be joining the Globe and Mail. One of the best in the biz, and a huge get for The Globe.

"Change is your friend, disguised as your enemy"​ Thoughts on culture change in media from Dmitry Shishkin linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Another great conference by our friends at Online News Association — no matter if you missed it, they’ve recorded the sessions!

Think we can put to bed all the supposed fear around using AI in newsrooms. Sonali Verma Vincent Peyregne John Hassell Adriaan Basson #WNMC21

A pitch perfect piece from Rasmus Kleis Nielsen that I wish I had written myself as it so perfectly captures how we allowed ourselves to decline and that there is a way out: niemanlab.org/2021/12/invest…

My Nieman Lab 2022 prediction: Successful news organizations will stop talking about business models. Instead, there will be a focus on building up business & operational infrastructure — to support journalism products that people will pay for. niemanlab.org/2021/12/busine…

🚨🚨🚨the printable The Globe and Mail holiday crossword is now online, for the keeners out there: theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-cr…

Giving subscribers great value (and reminding them of what they're getting) can keep them willing to pay. ow.ly/C1SR50HAVh4 Sonali Verma

News needs. Audience needs. User needs. Different words that describe the same concept, a significant trend in the publishing sector at the core of its engagement problem. I went back to the original user needs case study from 2016 to see what changed. linkedin.com/pulse/user-nee…

Selection Bias xkcd.com/2618

I've been looking forward to Elamin Abdelmahmoud's book, Son of Elsewhere, for years. Very happy we could offer a preview in this weekend's The Globe and Mail. It's out next week. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Great conference! Day two today.

Join Neil Katz and Sonali Verma at INMA's webinar on "How Advance Local Used #AI to Blow Their Subscription Goal Out of the Water" on July 20, 10am EST. They'll discuss how a paywall engine enabled Advance Local to increase #subscriptions. Register here inma.org/webinars/how-a…

"The whole point of humility display is to signal that you are humbled by your own magnificent accomplishments," David Brooks writes. on.theatln.tc/z6XUUjZ

During the next INMA Webinar, Neil Katz and Sonali Verma will discuss how Advance Local has used AI in its newsrooms. ow.ly/sCHm50JXLGq

I'm continually struck by how much generative AI seems to be a mirror to humanity, in both its beauty and its darkness... Once again confirming Kranzberg's first law: "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral."

“Once we flicked the switch to fully automated, we saw a continuation of the strong results we had in the early stages of operation.” ow.ly/HNT150MXBJr Sonali Verma

With SophiAutomation, The West Australian saw a dramatic increase in the number of subscriber acquisitions when compared with the traditional method of paywall decision-making. ow.ly/MsZE50MXBIR Sonali Verma

.SophiAutomation paved the way for fully algorithmic paywall decision-making at The West Australian. ow.ly/bCbF50MXBJc Sonali Verma

I attended the #PBI2024 Conference yesterday to discuss an essential role of media outlets as AI evolves at tremendous speed: Helping the public better understand the technology and its associated risks. Thank you to Sonali Verma and the entire CBC/Radio-Canada team!