UlrikeLanger
@ulrikelanger.bsky.social
German-American media innovation journalist. Innovation tour organizer. Trans-Atlantic knowledge transfer agent. Based in the North Cascade Mountains near Seattle. Occasional posts in German. Website: ulrikelanger.com Newsletter: newsmachines.beehiiv.com
How did the Toronto Star build an engaged news community and increase subscriptions ? By enhancing reader discussions around off-leash dogs in parks and ice cream parlor reviews drives audience. This strategy and more in News Machines: newsmachines.beehiiv.com/p/how-the-to...
This week’s case study in News Machines: How iTromsø is systematically building AI infrastructure instead of just stacking up AI tools and how their data-driven stories can be re-used many times. English: newsmachines.beehiiv.com/p/how-itroms.... Deutsch: newsmaschinen.beehiiv.com/p/wie-itroms...
How iTromsø Built Norway's Most AI-Ready Newsroom
A small Norwegian news outlet above the Arctic Circle has become the North Star for journalism's AI future
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Ganz starker Artikel von @ulrikelanger.bsky.social im Newsletter Newsmaschinen: Wie iTromsø Norwegens KI-bereiteste Redaktion aufgebaut hat – Eine kleine norwegische Zeitung nördlich des Polarkreises gilt als Nordstern für die KI-Zukunft des Journalismus: newsmaschinen.beehiiv.com/p/wie-itroms...
Wie iTromsø Norwegens KI-bereiteste Redaktion aufgebaut hat
Eine kleine norwegische Zeitungs-Website nördlich des Polarkreises gilt als Nordstern für die KI-Zukunft des Journalismus
newsmaschinen.beehiiv.com
The Wall Street Journal recently dared to do something that no major national newspaper in the USA has dared to do before. An AI-generated report on the homepage. Read all about this carefully planned endeavor and the strategy on my newsletter News Machines: newsmachines.substack.com/p/how-lars-t...
How Lars the Tax Bot Helped the WSJ Realize AI Could Make the Front Page
Inside The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Shift: From Niche Experimentation to Routine AI Generated First Drafts for Market Updates on the Digital Front Page
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A new AI-powered content tagging system. Tests with 1,400 Orioles baseball team reports, 6 LLMs and 8 prompt iterations. Value: Learn, which content leads to subscription conversions. Cost: $50. See the whole Baltimore Banner case study at News Machines: newsmachines.substack.com/p/baltimore-...
How The Baltimore Banner gained valuable audience insights from AI-powered content tagging
The Pulitzer-prize winning local news outlet developed an AI-powered story classification system, tested it with 1,400 Orioles articles and learned: Focus less on stats and more on people
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How does Village Media build local news villages in Canada and now also in the U.S.? I'm exploring their back to roots concept, powered with AI, in my new newsletter: newsmachines.substack.com/p/village-me... (English version) , newsmachines.substack.com/p/village-me... (German version)
Der fast 200 Jahre alte Philadelphia Inquirer setzt KI ein, um mit weniger Zeitaufwand mehr aus seinem Archiv herauszuholen. Wie das funktioniert und warum davon auch andere Medienunternehmen profitieren - darum geht es heute in meinem Newsletter. newsmachines.substack.com/p/philadelph...
Wie der Philadelphia Inquirer mit KI sein riesiges Archiv erschließt
Eine der ältesten Zeitungen der USA will mit semantischer Suche, Agenten und Personas seinen Journalisten effizientere Recherche in Archivmaterial ermöglichen
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Law firm Paul Weiss thought it could buy itself into Trump's grace for the price $40 mill. What it reaped instead is a shitstorm that will cost it far more. Not only because of Rachel Cohen. But also because Trump turned this bad deal into an even worse PR disaster, says @dankennedy.net
Trump extorts a major law firm — then lies to make the deal sound even worse
To make the humiliation complete, Donald Trump has apparently lied about the agreement he reached with Brad Karp, chair of the law firm Paul Weiss, in order to cast the terms of surrender as being …
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Die KI-Strategie der @texastribune.org ist ebenso innovativ wie simpel. Alle eingesetzten Tool machen den Lesern oder den Redakteuren die Nutzung einfacher. Und jedes Tool wird transparent kommuniziert. Mehr dazu bei newsmachines.substack.com
Die Tech-Konferenz South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, steht unmittelbar bevor. Bei Kress stelle ich vorab die drei wichtigsten Trends für Publisher vor, darunter "Trust Engineering": Wie Medien KI-generierte Propaganda und Deepfakes effizienter bekämpfen können. kress.de/news/beitrag...
Tech-Trends für die Medienbranche: Was auf der SXSW 2025 wichtig wird
Die weltweit wichtigste Tech- und Digitalkonferenz South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, steht unmittelbar bevor. kress-Korrespondentin Ulrike Langer stellt vorab die drei wichtigsten Trends für...
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There have been many low points in only 5 weeks of Trump administration, but this is a turning point from which the U.S. cannot easily recover, even if the next president is a Democrat and the next congress is dominated by Democrats. The whole world is shocked. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
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You chose the background color for your announcement well, Jeff Bezos. Democracy dies in darkness. And so does a once proud and great newspaper. This should be the last nail in the coffin.
Neuer Post auf meinem Newsletter News Machines: open.substack.com/pub/newsmach...
Mit Newsletter-spezifischen Analytics lokale Newsletter optimieren
Case Study: Wie die lokale Website Lookout in Kooperation mit der Analyse-Plattform Glueletter Leserengagement analysiert und Einnahmequellen optimiert
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This NYT analysis is spot on. No more trying to save Republicans from themselves and then letting them take the credit. They can't govern, so let them try in vain. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Opinion | James Carville: The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment (Gift Article)
There’s nothing Democrats can legitimately do to stop Trump, so we need a tactical pause in our fight to plan for the future.
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That is good news and correlates with my own observations of Bluesky vs Threads. Tried both, now concentrating on Bluesky. Forced algorithms in the news feed are poison for meaningful engagement. Let users choose between algorithmic/chronological. And devaluing links like Threads does is the worst.
I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT
HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.
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@hannescools.bsky.social Hi Hannes, as a long time media innovation journalist, currently mainly focusing on media and AI, I would love to be in your journalism & AI starter pack. Thank you in advance, Ulrike
@newsjennifer.bsky.social Hi Jennifer, I'd love to be in your fearless media starter pack. Btw: I'm also a fellow Ex-Seattleite (lived there from 2011 to 2024). Best, Ulrike
Next step for covering Trump: Replace the words "radical change" with "illegal coup".
Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · last yr.Late, but better than now than never, the NYT finding its feet on covering Trump:
@niallfirth.bsky.social Hi Niall, I would be grateful if you could please add me to your starter pack. Thank you, Ulrike
@stefanfries.bsky.social Hallo Stefan, ich würde mich freuen, wenn Du mich in Dein Medienjournalist*innen Startpack aufnimmst. Danke! Ulrike
If Musk goes through with this, then every single European country should put 100% tariffs on Teslas
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last yr.“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”
Tomorrow is Germany’s federal election. It’s all but certain that the conservatives (CDU) will win with far-right AfD (endorsed by Vance) coming in 2nd. CDU has vowed not to form a coalition with AfD, but they will caucus with them whenever they want to achieve their goals. A matter of semantics.
Right on! These are the important pockets of resistance that we need. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Adams Judge Orders Probe of Trump DOJ Request to Drop Case
A federal judge declined to immediately dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, instead appointing a prominent conservative lawyer to examine the Trump Justice Department’s move ...
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@jeffjarvis.bsky.social issued a grave warning about the dangers of broken U.S. mass media. They are failing to tell the huge story of the U.S. sinking into fascism. But mass media is still really important to reach critical mass. Jeff's video and my full comment: www.linkedin.com/posts/ulrike...
Ulrike Langer on LinkedIn: Must see Zoom video: An almost apocalyptic wake-up call from Jeff Jarvis…
Must see Zoom video: An almost apocalyptic wake-up call from Jeff Jarvis for the audience at VOCER VOCAMP and for all of us. I do hope that he is wrong in one…
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Americans hear a lot about the damage that Elon Musk and his DOGE are doing domestically. But on the international stage, it's especially horrifying what Vance is doing. Cheering for fascists to win the election in Germany of all places? This is what we have become. newrepublic.com/article/1916...
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame
Did you know that the United States is joining an international fascist network?
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After claiming remote workers are actually golfing, Trump again hits the links in Florida Via @jeffzeleny.bsky.social and Kevin Liptak www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
After claiming remote workers are actually golfing, Trump again hits the links in Florida | CNN Politics
As President Donald Trump orders federal workers to return to the office, he spent the fourth straight day at home here at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Everybody has a breaking point. This is mine. I just canceled my long-time @washingtonpost.com subscription. Scrapping an anti-Musk print wrap ad campaign where it would actually be seen? Shame on you WaPo! Democracy dies not only in darkness but also in blind obedience. www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/m...
Washington Post opted not to publish anti-Musk ad campaign after initially being open | CNN Business
The Washington Post scrapped an upcoming print ad from a pair of advocacy groups calling for the firing of Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government and Efficiency.
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