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How newsrooms can learn from failure without failing in public

Journalism gets one shot to be right. Product work gets better every time something breaks. Frank Bi, who joins us as our AI Strategy & Product Advisor, launched the Minnesota Star Tribune's first two audience-facing AI products, and he's written up how to hold both truths at once: put experiments behind a clea...


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There's a tension between journalism and product innovation, and it comes down to a clash of mental models. Journalism requires getting the facts right the first time. On the other hand, product innovation learns more from what doesn't work than from what does, and sometimes that means putting something half-baked in the wild to find out what audiences will actually respond t...


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What people showed off at our latest vibe coding event

Six people demoed tools they'd built with AI, and our video is out. Joey Coleman turned 197 monthly PDFs into a searchable 16-year database of building permits. Drew Bennett built a dashboard for 244 state highway cameras that local TV producers now cycle through live on air. Angela Eichhorst pulls meeting videos from 85 C...


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