journalist

“The editor, the writer, they, like, I'll just say it as plainly as possible. They don't care about you. They don't care about you. They care about their reader, or their listener, or their viewer. That's who they care about. That's who they're serving. And if …”

“A good journalist, a good media, a good writer, is not actually sitting around thinking that their job is to wait for people to pitch them so that they can just write about the best pitches. Their job, as they see it, is to go and find the most useful things f…”

“The more you try to control it, The more the reporter is going to be annoyed at you, and the more, in fact, the reporter might try to, like, take a shot at you in the story as a result, because they just, they found you too controlling, because they felt like …”

“Especially if you don't have hard news that you're pitching, having something like pretty controversial to say. So like we work with a lot of AI companies, if nine of them, you know, have one stance on, you know, something happening in the field and one has th…”

“And so I think cold outreach done well is just as effective.”

“Initially, some people inside the company were suggesting like, Hey, why don't you have journalists or, you know, some select group be the first participants, but Very specifically, we're like, no, that's like, we're trying to move away from the idea of curate…”

“AI is going to replace translators. It's going to replace most journalists because it does good research. It can write good copy, whatever, not, not elite journalism. It's not going to be able to replace all the writers.”

“The art of journalism is you talk to a bunch of people and some of them lie to you and you figure out what's true. So as long as the journalist treats the AI as yet another unreliable source, they're actually better equipped to work with AI than most other pro…”