Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
AI
The Lenfest AI Collaborative lets newsrooms explore a new technology together - but more importantly, it gives them the muscle to open source their work and collaborate.
Technology
By taking identity resolution to an independent organization, Bluesky is securing the future of its network, and of AT Protocol.
Media
In the same week, the President banned three networks from the White House - and started his own. It's not a coincidence that this happened so close to the midterms.
JSK Fellowship
How the JSK Fellowship is putting me in a more generative culture.
Personal
My 1925 Tudor on half an acre in Elkins Park, PA is up for sale. Here's why I loved living in it
Link roundups
Behind the power dynamics in AI and news – and is your TV spying on you?
AI
Publishers are suing AI vendors, accusing them of theft. But are they giving the creators responsible for building their value a fair deal?
Democracy
In a world where predictive policing is becoming more commonplace, TVs that report on what you're watching, record you using live mics, and scan your network for connected devices are a liability.
AI
Years ago, Facebook's lack of care for global communities made them complicit in a genocide. AI companies risk making the same mistakes.
Link roundups
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
Media
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
Media
I'm spending a year at Stanford to explore community platforms in news.