The Media Copilot

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Hosted by journalist Pete Pachal, The Media Copilot is a weekly conversation with smart people on how AI is changing media, journalism, and the news.

Episode Date
Tech companies are becoming Media companies. What happens next?
Jun 12, 2026
Local news, AI, and the fight for accountability
Jun 04, 2026
The Scraper Economy is already here. Publishers just aren’t getting paid.
May 28, 2026
AI won’t save Local News. But it might reinvent it.
May 14, 2026
How AI is changing B2B media
Apr 24, 2026
The Real Battle in AI Isn’t Capability. It’s Trust.
Apr 08, 2026
Can You Certify Good AI use? This Organization Thinks So
Mar 26, 2026
When AI changes discovery, who still gets paid?
Mar 19, 2026
Search is Changing Fast. Is Your Brand Ready for the Answer Engine Era?
Mar 12, 2026
Building the Newsroom AI Playbook Without Turning Journalism into Slop
Mar 05, 2026
She’s Building the AI Agent That Could Replace Your News Feed
Feb 26, 2026
Fake News at Machine Speed: Inside AI’s Impact on Media Trust
Feb 19, 2026
AI, and copyright: How media can decide between litigation or negotiation
Feb 05, 2026
Teaching journalists to use AI without losing critical thinking
Jan 29, 2026
Why Yahoo Still Matters and What It Knows About the Future of News
Jan 16, 2026
Best of the Year: Inside the AI Shift that’s Transforming Media and Journalism
Dec 28, 2025
Can You Trust That Clip? Storyful’s James Law on Verification in the AI Era
Dec 19, 2025
Practical AI in the Newsroom with Darla Cameron of The Texas Tribune
Dec 12, 2025
Building the Next Era of the Open Web with Adam Singolda
Dec 05, 2025
Inside Time’s AI Push: Mark Howard on Building an Agent, Not Just Another Widget
Nov 21, 2025
Reinventing Ads for the Age of AI
Nov 14, 2025
How Newsrooms Are Really Using AI
Nov 07, 2025
The Writing Renaissance: Tony Stubblebine on Medium’s Human Future in the Age of AI
Oct 24, 2025
AI Wants Your Book. Trip Adler Says It Should Pay.
Oct 17, 2025
AI Took the Clicks. Creators Want Them Back.
Oct 10, 2025
From 400 Cities to 2,000: How 6AM City is building a newsletter empire with AI
Oct 03, 2025
Can AI Fix the News Feed? Cory Ondrejka on NewsArc, Outrage Loops, and Smarter Curation
Sep 19, 2025
Who Pays When AI Eats the Web? Bill Gross on Zero-Click Search, and the Conversation Layer
Sep 12, 2025
Who Controls What You See? AI, Media & Power
Sep 05, 2025
Bot-Blocking to Business-Building: DataDome’s Aurélie Guerrieri on the Intent Layer of AI Traffic
Aug 29, 2025
The Atlantic’s AI Gamble with Nicholas Thompson
Aug 08, 2025
Cloudflare’s Stephanie Cohen on fighting AI scraping
Jul 25, 2025
The AP’s AI playbook: Troy Thibodeaux on liquid content, integrity, and the future of news
Jul 18, 2025
No More Doomscrolling: Sara Beykpour on Smarter News with Particle
Jul 11, 2025
Inside the AI Newsroom: Florent Daudens on Building Tools Journalists Actually Want
Jul 07, 2025
How AI scrapers are breaking the internet’s honor code, with TollBit’s Toshit Panigrahi
Jun 27, 2025
The new SEO: Chris Andrew on mastering AI search
May 16, 2025
Building resilient content strategies for publishers with David Buttle and Will Barker
May 09, 2025
How ScalePost’s Ahmed Malik is building an AI survival strategy for media
May 02, 2025
Inside Reuters’ AI playbook: Why Jane Barrett says journalism can’t afford to sit this one out
Apr 25, 2025
Dotdash Meredith’s bold bet on AI—and why it might actually work
Apr 11, 2025
AI vs. truth: Inside the fight to keep propaganda out of the algorithm
Apr 04, 2025
Reinventing local news with AI: Warren St. John unpacks Patch’s growth story
Mar 28, 2025
How to get the essential AI skills every PR pro needs, with Peter Bittner
Mar 12, 2025
How Factiva built an AI engine on 100% licensed content with Traci Mabrey
Mar 07, 2025
Can AI save local news? The promise and peril of AI-powered journalism with Mark Riley
Feb 28, 2025
The rise of AI content farms: Digging in with Wired’s Kate Knibbs
Feb 21, 2025
Who Pays for AI? The Fight for Fair Compensation in Media with Annelies Jansen
Feb 07, 2025
AI, PR, and the art of staying human, with Dan Nestle
Jan 31, 2025
Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data with Francesco Marconi
Jan 24, 2025
Leveraging AI to Connect PR and Press with Michelle Songy
Jan 17, 2025
How to write with AI and stay 100% human, with Alexandra Samuel
Jan 10, 2025
AI’s Role in Smarter News Monitoring, with AskNews CEO Robert Caulk
Jan 03, 2025
AI's Media Transformation: From Newsrooms to 'Content Polymorphs' with Clare Spencer
Dec 20, 2024
The AI Tollbooth: Dan Goikhman's Mission to Make ChatGPT Pay for Content
Dec 13, 2024
AI Anchors in Action: Transforming Video News Production with Adam Mosam
Dec 06, 2024
Mastering AI for PR & Media, With Peter Bittner
Nov 20, 2024
How AI Changes Newsrooms and Readers, with BI Germany CEO Jakob Wais
Nov 15, 2024
The Ethics of AI In the Newsroom, with Liam Andrew
Nov 09, 2024
What Comes After Google NotebookLM, with AnyTopic's Daniel Rascon
Nov 02, 2024
The Value of Humanity in an AI World, with Jeremy Kahn
Oct 11, 2024
How to Build an iPhone-Obsessed Chatbot, with Joanna Stern
Sep 27, 2024
Building Respect for Artists with Synthetic Songs, with Hooky CEO Jordan Young
Sep 20, 2024
Empowering Journalists with Expertise on Demand, with Nick Toso and Catalina Villegas
Sep 06, 2024
From Drake to Data, with Cedric the Entertainer and Qloo CEO Alex Elias
Aug 16, 2024
Owning Your Audience in the Age of AI, with Subtext CEO Mike Donoghue
Aug 09, 2024
Perplexity's Master Plan, With Dmitry Shevelenko
Jul 31, 2024
How to Get AI Companies to Pay for Content, With TollBit Founders Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi
Jul 19, 2024
AI's Quiet Revolution in Hollywood, With Jumpcut Cofounder Dilip Rajan
Jul 05, 2024
How AI Is REALLY Disrupting Video, With Lucihub CEO Amer Tadayon
Jun 14, 2024
Fighting Deepfakes on the Blockchain, With Livepeer CEO Doug Petkanics
May 31, 2024
Upgrading Journalism With AI, One Newsroom at a Time, With Nota CEO Josh Brandau
May 17, 2024
Hunting AI Content in the Wild, With Originality CEO Jon Gillham
May 03, 2024
Navigating the AI Revolution in Media, With Ricky Sutton
Apr 26, 2024
News Aggregation in an AI World, With Alex Fink
Apr 16, 2024
The Realities of Applying AI in Newsrooms, with Joe Amditis
Mar 15, 2024
How Journalists Can Make Peace With AI, With Anne-Marie Tomchak
Mar 01, 2024
Why Journalists Make the Best Prompt Engineers, With David Caswell
Feb 23, 2024
How AI Is Creating Realistic Fictional Characters, With AImmersive
Feb 09, 2024
How 'Invisible QR Codes' Can Protect Copyright in the Age of AI, With Eric Wengrowski
Feb 02, 2024
Reviving the Dead With AI, With Siggi Arnason
Jan 26, 2024
How Media Can Thrive in the Age of AI, With Louise Story
Jan 12, 2024
Sniffing Out AI Writers, With Lee Gaul
Jan 05, 2024
Applying ChatGPT to Financial News, With Matt Martel
Dec 22, 2023
Running Your Own Newsroom's LLM, with Viktor Shpak
Dec 08, 2023
AI Journalism Goes Global, With Charlie Beckett
Dec 01, 2023
Is This the End of OpenAI?
Nov 21, 2023
Staying One Step Ahead of ChatGPT, With Brennan Woodruff
Nov 17, 2023
Putting AI Where Reporters Actually Work, With Ryan Restivo
Nov 10, 2023
How Media Can Survive in the Generative AI Era, with Brian Morrissey
Nov 05, 2023
Teaching AI to the Next Generation of Journalists, with Thomas Seymat
Nov 03, 2023
How AI Can Customize Your News, with Jeremy Caplan
Oct 31, 2023
The Ethics of DALL-E, with Harry McCracken
Oct 27, 2023