People Lie
/The reason people lie is to avoid the pain of challenge and its consequences.
17 Articles from June about AI & Data Science
/Neural Networks, Explained for Beginners: Start Here If They’ve Confused You
Here’s What Everyone Gets Wrong About Agentic AI
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a rare joint warning about frontier AI
How AI Agents Decide What to Do Next
Can AI Predict Satellite Failures Before They Happen? The US Air Force Wants to Find Out
1.5M people use GenAI.mil, the Defense Department’s enterprise generative AI platform
Optimizing AI Agent Planning with Operations Research and Data Science
The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide to Building an AI Agent in Python
10 Common RAG Mistakes We Keep Seeing in Production
The infrastructure behind making local LLM agents useful
How Innovative Is China’s Space Industry?
The 10 data science AI skills that really matter in 2026
Code is cheap. Engineering judgement is now the scarce resource
76 Media Job & Internship Sites
/Asian American Journalists Association (members only)
Associated Press (jobs & internships)
Assoc for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
BEA (The Broadcast Education Association)
COMM internships (Twitter/X)
Dayforce Job & Internship Board
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Deciding What to Build
/Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point. Here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud: deciding what to build has always been a bottleneck. It is a genuine waste of your one professional life to spend it building things nobody wants and nobody buys, in a system that won't let you get near the problem. Chase impact, not the salary ceiling. And if your job consistently has you shipping into the void, leave." - Kasper Junge
The Quest for Truth
/The quest for truth, at least the truth about the most important things, cannot be divorced from the quest to become the kind of person we need to become. -C. Stephen Evans
8 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Tue, June 30 - Uncovering AI’s Human Cost: A Non Technical Toolkit for Investigative Reporters
What: Participants will be introduced to a framework that breaks down each development stage of AI into an area of coverage and learn about how they can find and report stories within each one. Students will walk away with methods and approaches on how to tackle their own AI accountability stories and learn from low-tech examples that yielded high impacts.
Who: Lam Thuy Vo, Pulitzer Center Grantee
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
Tue, June 30 - Who Gets to Crawl? Publisher control in the age of AI crawlers and agents
What: In this session, we will share what Cloudflare is seeing across the web, how AI crawler behavior is evolving, and what publishers can learn from the emerging infrastructure layer around bots, agents, protocols, and machine-readable rights.
Who: Sam Else, Senior Director Strategic Partnerships, Cloudflare; Ezra Eeman. Lead, AI in Media, WAN-IFRA; Kevin Anderson, Director of the Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
Tue, June 30 - Operationalizing AI in Observability: From Debugging to Automated Remediation
What: We will walk through what operationalizing AI in observability actually looks like in practice, with real use case examples across each stage of the journey, from faster investigation to fully autonomous remediation.
Who: Alex Wilhelm, TNS Host; Vignesh Palaniappan, Senior Product Manager for Bits AI.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The New Stack
Tue, June 30 - How AI Makes the Best Leaders More Human (Not Less)
What: This webinar is about how they’re doing it, how you can do it (and support your leaders to do it too). This is a new way to think about AI – one not media-based, but reality and results driven.
Who: Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer, The Kevin Eikenberry Group and co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, June 30 - The ethics and law of creator-style journalism
Who: Lynn Walsh, Trusting News and Jonathan Gaston-Falk, Student Press Law Center.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University & and Trusting News
Wed, July 1 - Design for trust: Data storytelling in the age of AI
What: Learn how to stay in the driving seat as AI becomes part of your data workflow. Explore what it actually takes to build trust through data in an AI-driven world.
Who: Tey Bannerman, AI Strategy & Product Design Leader; Duncan Clark, Flourish CEO, Canva EMEA GM.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Flourish
Wed, July 1 - Beyond the Prompt: Moving from Conversation to Connected Workflows
What: We'll show how AI-assisted work is moving from conversation toward delegation. You’ll learn how to define a useful outcome, provide the right context, set constraints and quality standards, and keep human judgment in the loop.
Who: Juliann Igo, GTM, OpenAI; Diana Stegall, Customer Education, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, July 2 - Visual Journalism
What: We bring together three practitioners from three of the world's leading editorial environments to explore what this craft looks like from the inside — the process, the decisions, the constraints, and the possibilities.
Who: Irene de la Torre Arenas, Financial Times; Jonas Oesch, NZZ; Marco Hernandez, The New York Times.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: On Data And Design
Embrace Learning
/Embrace learning as a place to meet God.
Deathly Afraid
/A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun. -H. L. Mencken
Job Interviews: 17 Articles
/5 red flags to spot before taking the job - Glass Door
6 Things To Do When You Don’t Know What To Say In A Job Interview - Forbes
10 Impressive Questions to Ask in an Interview - The Cut
50 Most Common Interview Questions - Glass Door
Answers To Illegal Interviews Questions - Business Insider
Don't botch your interview - Axios
How Interviewers Know when to Hire you in 90 Seconds - Undercover Recruiters
How to Handle Inappropriate Interview Questions - LifeHacker
How to Hire the Best? Jeff Bezos Says to Consider 1 Key Trait - Inc
How to Keep a Bad Interviewer from Derailing Your Job Chances - LifeHacker
How to Spot the Boss from Hell - Wall Street Journal ($)
Job Interviews Are Broken - The Atlantic
Why Brainteasers don't belong in job interviews - New Yorker
Why Hiring Managers Use Personality Tests - Wall Street Journal ($)
Your Interview With AI - Inside Higher Ed
GEO Strategy
/AI models do not view all content equally. They prioritize verified, third-party information over branded content marketing. To align with this reality, your GEO strategy must prioritize getting your spokespeople and data cited in the press. A single mention in a reputable trade journal often carries more weight in an LLM’s retrieval process than a dozen optimized blog posts on your own domain. -MuckRack
19 Recent Articles about AI & Journalism
/Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for mass copyright infringement – Courthouse News
News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
NewsGuard launches first AI chatbot built to deliver trusted journalism only from reliable news websites – Editor & Publisher
How to Run a News Company in the Age of Polarization and A.I. Slop – New York Times
Meet the journalists training the AI models that might replace them – Reuters
How should news organizations label their AI use for audiences? New studies suggest some answers – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
AI in J-School: How Journalism Classes Are Adapting - GovTech
In a subscription experiment, about 350 readers of a Boston news outlet are paying for AI to sit through their town meetings for them - The Boston Globe
Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers – Digiday
How AI citations have changed in the last 6 months: New insights from ‘What is AI Reading?’ – MuckRack
New York Times Publisher’s A.I. Warnings - New York Times
The Economist has launched a dedicated ChatGPT app, the first of its kind by a major consumer news publication – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times – The Verge
BBC World Service to launch new language offers in Hungarian and Romanian – BBC
AI and the Future of Independent Journalism – Washington Monthly
Should journalism have an industry-wide ethics policy for covering artificial intelligence? – Objective Journalism
The ethics of using AI in newsrooms: A work in progress – Seattle Times
A.I., Journalism and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square - New York Times
A Positive Attitude
/A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright
AI Definitions: Multimodal AI
/Multimodal AI – These AI models can take in text, images, audio, and video simultaneously and spit out answers in one of these formats. The responses are therefore richer and more contextualized.
The Flaw in AI Educational Tools
/A tool designed to respond to questions and ask follow-ups can’t help a student who doesn’t engage or know what to ask. Many ed-tech tools flounder because they haven’t solved the challenge at the center of education: How do you motivate students to experience the discomfort of learning something new? An AI tutor may be able to deliver math problems that are perfectly calibrated to a student’s level. But it can’t make the student actually do the problems. -The Atlantic
13 Articles about Social Media & AI
/News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media – Nieman Lab
Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media – The Guardian
Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms with the help of AI – Tech Crunch
TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds – Search Engine Journal
An AI flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software. – New York Times
TikTok scales back AI-generated video descriptions after absurd errors – BBC
Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I. – New York Times
How Fake People Became Real Influencers AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online. – The Atlantic
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite – Financial Times
The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds - New York Times
For AI Help, More College Students Ask Social Media First – Inside Higher Ed
Canada moves to regulate social media and AI chatbots – Jurist
Instagram AI chatbot tricked by hackers to give access to others' accounts – BBC
Opportunity
/Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune — or temporary defeat.
A Rare Warning
/The Five Eyes intelligence alliance (a group of spy agencies) has issued a rare joint warning that frontier AI is close to being capable of crippling governments and businesses. “The timeline is not years, it is months.” - The Guardian
Job Interview Tips
/When to Show Up
Wait until 10 minutes before your scheduled interview time to announce yourself. Arriving any sooner shows that you're not respectful of the time the hiring manager put aside for you. A candidate who arrived an hour early made workers uncomfortable. Companies really don't want someone camped out in their lobby.
The Interview
Signal confidence by offering a firm handshake.
Avoid looking around the room, tapping your fingers, or other nervous movements.
No matter how you're feeling, keep your personal woes out of the interview process. For example, if you were laid off, instead of lamenting the situation, you might say the experience prompted you to reassess your skills, and that's what led you here. "You want to demonstrate resilience in the face of unpredictable obstacles."
Show you've done your homework on the company by explaining how your background and track record relate to its current needs.
Find out how recent changes in the marketplace have affected the firm, its competitors and the industry overall. Read recent company press releases, annual reports, media coverage and industry blogs and consult with trusted members of your network.
Questions to be Ready to Answer
What are your positive leadership qualities?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Can you describe a time when you had to make a decision in a crisis?
Tell me something about you that I can’t read on your resume?
Questions to Ask
What would be your highest priority for me to accomplish?
What does success look like in this position, and how do you measure it?
How can I best contribute to the department’s goals?
What would you say are the top two personality traits someone needs to do this job well?
What improvements or changes do you hope the new candidate will bring to this position?
I know this company prides itself on X and Y, so what would you say is the most important aspect of your culture?
Do you like working here?
Is there anything that stands out to you that makes you think I might not be the right fit for this job?
What were the best things about the last person who held this position?
To whom do I report, and what does that mean in terms of authority?
Who will I be working most closely with?
Are there opportunities for professional development?
Salary
Your best bet is to wait until you're extended a job offer before talking pay.
Come prepared—having researched the average pay range for a position in case you're pressured to name your price. You might say, for example, that money isn't a primary concern for you and that you're just looking for something fair. You can try turning the tables by asking interviewers what the company has budgeted for the position.
Follow Up
After an interview, make sure to address thank-yous to the right people. Look closely for spelling and grammatical errors.
Don't stalk the interviewer. Wait at least a week before checking on your candidacy.
Leave a message if you get voicemail.
AI's Medical Limitations
/Although research shows that generative AI can help diagnose rare diseases or make sense of unusual symptoms, a recent study by Oxford scientists found that using AI did not significantly improve patients’ ability to diagnose themselves or others. Another one, led by researchers at Mount Sinai, suggested that chatbots may fail to alert users to potential medical emergencies. -The Atlantic
Illusions
/Our illusions can ravage us as mercilessly as violence or disease. And the illusions of others, when
they take on lives of their own, are even more dangerous. -Nicholas Christopher