ONA26 Unconference - Session 5: Maintaining High Standards When Your Newsroom Is Strapped: Conversations To Learn How Different Newsrooms Are Using AI To Save Time Without Sacrificing Quality

Speaker: Anna Kottakis, Madison Magazine

More and more, newsrooms are functioning on a bare bones staff. Everyone is busy -- especially editors, who are often both producing content, managing staff and making big-picture strategic decisions. How can editors give their staff the support they need to continue to meet high standards for ethics and quality without being able to spend a lot of time reading, rewriting, explaining, etc.? (I'm particularly curious in how newsrooms are managing this in terms of AI, which is where many newsrooms are turning to save time. What tasks NEED a human editor? What parts of workflows can be "outsourced" to AI without sacrificing quality?)

Unconference sessions are attendee-generated and voted-upon programming that are less formal and require less planning than traditional conference offerings. Running in sequential hour blocks from 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM and 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM on Wednesday, April 1, these open-source concepts will close the ONA26 conference.