Our AI x Visual Journalism program, plus pitch a vibe coding demo

AI x Visual Journalism Forum, LA, Aug. 25–26: Rebuilding scenes in 3D and debating where retouching becomes faking

One session has you rebuilding a scene in 3D from ordinary photos, then walking through it. Another is about captions and metadata, which AI is potentially extremely useful for to give photographers back time in the field. There's a workshop on proving an image is what it claims to be, and you'll leave with an app that signs your photos as you shoot, and also one on where retouching becomes lying.

Produced with Arizona State University's Narrative and Emerging Media program. CatchLight is also now on board as a presenting partner. Early-bird registration ends Aug. 15: $50, or $25 for students.

Vibe Coding Show and Tell, Aug. 13: Pitch your demo

It's summer and the vibe coding hasn't stopped. Demo what you're working on — whether it's useful, half-working, ridiculous, all fine. Pitch by Tuesday, Aug. 11 and we'll pick the demos beforehand. If you'd rather just watch, please join us!

AI x Investigative Journalism at The New York Times, Sept. 25

Filling up. A full day on document analysis, pattern detection and verification, plus sessions from The Times' AI team on what they're building. If your organization is interested in sponsoring, reply and we'll send details.

Worth a read

• Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely (Nieman Lab). Google Zero looks like it's here.
• AI visibility is no longer about referral traffic (Digiday). What publishers measure now that clicks aren't the point.
• Cultural resistance hampers use of AI in newsrooms (Press Gazette). A big FT Strategies and WAN-IFRA survey says the holdup is the journalists, not the technology.
• Announcing the Monetization Gateway (Cloudflare). Charge for anything behind Cloudflare in one line of code. The billing plumbing for AI crawlers is shipping.
• The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor (Latent Space)
• An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (Ethan Mollick)
• OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news (Axios). $5 million more plus $3 million in credits to the American Journalism Project.

Upcoming events

• Aug. 13, online: Hacks/Hackers Vibe Coding Show and Tell
• Aug. 25–26, Los Angeles: Hacks/Hackers AI x Visual Journalism Forum with Arizona State University
• Sept. 17–18, Austin: International Symposium on Journalism
• Sept. 21, Madrid: INMA Media Innovation Week
• Sept. 25, New York: Hacks/Hackers AI x Investigative Journalism Forum with The New York Times
• Oct. 1, Bonn: b° future festival
• Nov. 17–19, London: JournalismAI Festival

Jobs

• Head of Content & Curriculum, Education, Anthropic (San Francisco or New York)
• Communications Lead, Platform, Anthropic (New York, San Francisco or Seattle)
• Digital Communications Director, Cloudflare (hybrid)
• Economics editor, The Washington Post
• Digital production editor, The Wall Street Journal
• OSINT Editor, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Prague)
• Senior Editor, Mill Media (UK)
• Associate Editor, Story Transformer, Mongabay (remote)