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Stephen Goforth
Human oversight of AI does not mean manually reviewing every output. It means designing controls proportional to risk. A proposed email subject line does not require the same validation as a medical diagnosis, a credit decision, or an instruction affecting an industrial plant. Expertise establishes that threshold, identifies when a model moves beyond its reliable range, and determines when automation must stop. -Eduardo Perez
3 resume mistakes that can sabotage your job application - Fast Company
4 things Bill Gates did wrong on his 1974 Harvard student resume, from experts - CNBC
4 websites to help you create a clean, attractive resume - The Next Web
6 million job listings asked for 'communication skills': Here's how to include them on your resume - CNBC
6 Tips to Write a Winning Resume Summary (With Examples) - MakeUseOf
7 common resume mistakes to avoid - Fast Company
7 Mistakes that Doom a College Journalist's Resume - Michael Koretzky
13 Must-Have Words to Include in Your Resume - Glassdoor
50 Action Verbs You Can Use For A More Dynamic Resume - Refinery29
20+ LinkedIn Profile Tips (Guaranteed Ways to Stand Out) - Buffer
AI is screening your resume. Here's how to make it past the bots - NPR
Attractive women should not include a photo with a job application - The Economist
Best and Worst Terms for Resumes - Huffington Post
FontPair (Helps you pick font combinations for your resume. so you stand out from the typical Times New Roman)
Gen Z is rewriting the rulebook on 'résumé gaps' - Business Insider
Google recruiters explain how to demonstrate 'past experience' on your resume-even if you've never had a job - Business Insider
How to format your resume if you don't have a degree - CNBC
How to include your personality in your resume, says a Deloitte exec: It will give you ‘the edge’ - CNBC
How to get your résumé past the robot reading it - Vox
How to Make Sure Your Résumé Passes Muster With an AI Reader - Wall Street Journal ($)
How to use ChatGPT to build your resume - ZDnet
How to Write a Data Scientist Resume in 2026: Complete Guide - Analytics Insights
How to Write a Great Resume - Matthew Hale (video)
How to Write a Resume - Glassdoor
Questions about resume gaps are expected. Here’s how job seekers can address them - AP
Looking for a new job? These best online resume services can help you stand out - New York Post
Meet the New Boss, Big Data - Wall Street Journal
The Most Efficient Way to Keep Your Resume Up to Date - LifeHacker
Over 55% of people admit to lying on their resume at least once—here are the 8 most common lies - CNBC
Resume advice from an internship supervisor
The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun - ArsTechnica
Resumes that impress no matter your background - Glassdoor Blog
This is how often you should update your resume—whether or not you’re looking for a new job - CNBC
Steps you can take to modernize your resume - Boston Herald
Stop Saying You 'Helped' on Your Resume (and Use These Verbs Instead) - Lifehacker
Tiny Typos Can Add Up To a Big X - Washington Post
To get a job, write your story instead of a resume - Quartz
Want a new journalism job? 'Crawl' your resume first - Poynter
Why I tossed your Resume - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Your Résumé Might Be Getting Tossed by AI. How to Push Back. - Wall Street Journal
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Joseph Brodsky
The same technology that scales knowledge can scale a flawed assumption. A well-written answer can be false; a historical pattern can reproduce bias; efficient automation can accelerate a process that should never have existed. The greatest risk is not that AI will be wrong, but that it will be wrong fluently enough for someone without domain expertise to trust it. -Eduardo Perez
How to Shine as a Data Scientist in the Vibe Coding Era – Toward Data Science
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering - Florian Herrengt
AI has torched the market for junior programmers - Seldo
In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all. – Jakub
Can Your AI Pass the Accessibility Test? – Aaron Gustafson
Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point – Kasper Junge
Loop Engineering in AI - Addy Osmani
Tech Workers Maxed Out Their A.I. Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It. – New York Times
Code Is Cheap. Engineering Judgement Is Now the Scarce Resource – Toward Data Science
Prompts are technical debt too – Sean Goedecke
Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era – New York Times
The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming – Wall Street Journal
The 2026 edition of the State of Web Dev AI survey – State of AI
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload – New York Times
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski
There’s fascinating research emerging about so-called A.I. self-preference bias — the tendency for these systems to favor their own work. In other words, an A.I. recruiter will probably rate a résumé generated by ChatGPT more highly than one written by a human. - Callie Holtermann of the New York Times
Tokens – A token can be thought of as the basic unit used by AI to process language, similar to the root of a word. “Creat” would represent words like create, creative, creator, creating, and creation. An LLM looks for correlations between words that go together like giraffe and neck. A single word might fall into many tokens since it might have multiple meanings and its subword might correlate to many other subwords. One token generally corresponds to ~4 characters of text for common English text. Examples: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
There are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are. -Steve Jobs
Frontier models can detect that they are being evaluated and will shift outcomes to meet the goals of a test. These so-called measurement traps are not unique to AI models. They show up in standardized testing (when instructors begin to “teaching to the test”) as well as in business when bonuses and promotions are tied to revenue measures. This leads to short-term sales being prioritized over long-term profitability. The problem is this: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say. Two of the most exciting results, the experts say, incorporate preexisting ideas from the recent mathematical literature without properly citing them. Like a number of recent AI breakthroughs, it pasted together ideas from the mathematical literature to build a new theorem. Once again, the LLM’s trick is its superhuman patience for assembling puzzle pieces, not the ability to make some profound intellectual leap. -Scientific American
The prison isn’t the past, the prison is the belief that the past is still you. -Derek Parfit
What: Industry experts will explore how organizations are equipping leaders to guide teams through AI-driven change. Learn practical approaches for strengthening communication, supporting employees through disruption and using AI to enhance collaboration, learning and business performance. This session will provide actionable insights for leaders working to build adaptable, resilient and future-ready teams.
Who: Alan Nelson, Co-Managing Partner CRA, Admired Leadership; Brittany Podolak, Chief Human Resources Officer, athenahealth; Danielle Silver, Solution Architect, SweetRush; Josh Cardoz, Chief Creative & Learning Officer, Sponge; Tom Kupetis Partner and Executive Vice President, St. Charles Consulting Group NIIT.
When: 11 am – 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Industry
What: How to anchor local reporting in national data, policy, and trends without losing nuance; advice on localizing national health issues with reporting that centers people, place, and lived experience; and tips for engaging complex public health and healthcare topics into clear, engaging stories for broad audiences.
Who: Tracy Jan, a senior editor for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The National Press Club Journalism Institute,
What: Learn practical ways to turn audience research into real newsroom action. How to design research around real business challenges, integrate it into your newsroom's workflow, and measure its impact.
Who: Ariel Zirulnick, an entrepreneurial journalist and consultant who works at the intersection of editorial, audience, and product strategy to help news organizations build more sustainable, community-centered futures.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Indiegraf
What: Discover practical, research-based strategies that will help you strengthen your influence and succeed in a world where technology continues to evolve— but lasting success still depends on human Influence.
Who: Elaina Zuker President, Elaina Zuker Associates.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
What: Go beyond police reports and breaking-news narratives. Learn to cover so-called “teen takeovers” with context, accuracy and care.
Who: Fernanda Camarena, an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience; Liz Ryan, a policy expert, advocate and investigative journalist; Kevin Beckford, Advisor for Partnerships at Pretrial Justice Institute; Justin Garcia, State and Local Accountability Reporter, Tampa Bay Times
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter
What: The second of three listening sessions. Learn about the work that has gone into the recommended Code revisions, the revisions being considered and ask your questions. Registration required.
Who: The SPJ Code of Ethics revision committee.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
What: Learn how Claude finds, evaluates and recommends brands: what influences its answers, where SEO still matters, and what you can do to improve your chances of being recommended.
Who: JP Garbaccio Head of AEO & SEO, Searchable.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Searchable
What: In this session, you’ll build a practical foundation for developing with the OpenAI API. We’ll cover core building blocks, model selection, prompting, structured outputs, and the key concepts that help teams move from an initial use case to a working prototype.
Who: Peter Diamond, Builder ADM, OpenAI; Allie Lei, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: Join us for a conversation and Q&A about a topic that applies to every town, city and state as small businesses struggle with rising insurance costs and employees face daunting financial decisions.
Who: Joseph Burns, AHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health Policy, Insurance; Bob Herman, Business of Health Care Reporter, STAT.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Association of Health Care Journalists
What: We’ll cut through the noise and share three specific ways you can incorporate AI into your virtual classes. You'll explore how to use AI to create an engaging learning experience, as a facilitation support tool to stay present with learners during delivery, and as a tech backup to handle platform issues without derailing your session.
Who: Cindy Huggett, CPTD Principal, Cindy Huggett Consulting.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenSesame
What: No technical background needed. What You'll Walk Away With: AI Productivity Checklist; 50 Ready-to-Use AI Prompts; AI Tools Resource Guide; Webinar Presentation; Certificate of Participation; Exclusive discount on advanced training.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Humanitix
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Mangates
What: How ChatGPT Work can support the teams that help news organizations grow and operate. We’ll explore the shift from AI that answers questions to AI that can carry work forward across multiple steps, using the tools and context around you.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: You’ll hear directly from district leaders who are putting AI into practice as they share lessons learned, successful use cases, and the leadership decisions helping them build thoughtful, sustainable approaches that support educators and improve outcomes for students.
Who: Jared Bloom, Superintendent, Franklin Square Union Free School District (NY); Shaylia McRae, Deputy Superintendent, Academics and Transformation, Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL); Debbie Durrence, Interim Chief Accountability Officer, Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA); Dan Bridges, Superintendent, Naperville Community Unit School District 203 (IL); Jennifer Ferrari, Chief Executive Officer, ERDI; and Jeff McCoy, Chief Education Officer, ERDI.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Education Research and Development Institute
What: A practical session exploring how administrative professionals, executive secretaries, and critical support teams can use AI to strengthen their everyday work.
Who: Amanda Bullock, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI; Hillary Washington, Executive Ops, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: Designed for journalists with little or no spreadsheet experience, the workshop will cover the building blocks of Google Sheets, including sorting and filtering data, creating simple calculations and cleaning information for analysis. Participants will learn practical techniques they can immediately use to improve their reporting and workflow.
Who: Mónica Cordero is an award-winning investigative data reporter.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: iMediaCampus
What: Learn how data analytics teams can start using ChatGPT Work for common workflows. This session will focus on practical ways newly enabled users can begin exploring Work with the tools and context they already use.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: You'll learn: Where AI adoption is creating new risks across state and local government environments, and why many organizations lack full visibility. How to identify and manage shadow AI, and what steps can help improve oversight of tools and usage across your organization. What it takes to establish practical governance frameworks, and how to balance innovation with security and compliance.
Who: Jim Bergen, Vice President, State Local and Education, CrowdStrike; Matt Singleton Executive Public Sector Strategist, CrowdStrike and Former State of Oklahoma CISO; Adam Zoller Chief Information Security Officer, CrowdStrike.
When: 2:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
What: A conversation about the organization's evolution, the lessons learned along the way, and what other journalists, editors, and publishers can apply to their own work. From recruiting contributors to building community and adapting to a changing media landscape, this webinar offers practical insights for anyone interested in strengthening local journalism.
Who: Tracy Simmons, executive director of FāVS News; FāVS News associate editor Cassy Benefield; FāVS News reporter Emma Maple.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Religion News Association
What: This webinar explores the practical applications, opportunities, and challenges of implementing these tools, drawing on real-world insights from recent evaluations of speech-to-text technologies.
Who: Meghan Xu Programmer/Analyst, DevOps, Scholars Portal, OCUL; Rachel Wang Systems Administrator, DevOps, Scholars Portal, OCUL.
When: 2:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries
Profanity is a lazy man’s way of trying to be emphatic.
Framing the future as a competition between people and machines is a false choice. AI will automate tasks, transform professions, and displace some jobs. It is equally misguided to conclude that expertise no longer matters. What is changing is how expertise creates value: less time spent on repetitive execution, and more on defining the right problem, recognizing exceptions, validating outcomes, and taking responsibility for the consequences of a decision. -Eduardo Perez
Can journalists easily switch to PR? - PR Moment
From Policy to PR – It Was the Same Job All Along - Campaigns & Elections
From the pros: job-seeking advice everyone should know - PR Daily
How to choose between agency and in-house roles - PR Daily
How to Land a Fashion PR Internship, According to Publicists - Fashionista
How to write a great bio: A strong “about me” can really make you stand out - PR Daily
Majority of PR Pros Using AI, Survey Finds - PRSA
The PR Job You Want Exists (It’s Just Not Called “Public Relations”) - Media Bistro
What experienced communicators wish new PR pros understood - PR Daily
Your Guide to Landing an Entry-Level Marketing Job - Coursera
Tell me who admires and loves you, And I will tell you who you are. –Charles Aguustin Sainte-Beuve
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – AI typically refers to computers that imitate the process of human thinking, able to make some decisions on their own without human intervention. The defining feature of artificial intelligence is that its behavior is learned from data rather than from being explicitly programmed. When most people talk about artificial intelligence, they typically refer to LLMs (Large Language Models). While AI can effectively mimic and mix established patterns in creative ways, it does not perform well at creating new things by breaking expectations and conventional forms.
Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight – Washington Post
China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley. – New York Times
The hottest AI models in Silicon Valley face a powerful source of competition – Washington Post
China’s A.I. Play Is Different From America’s – New York Times
White House will exempt ‘open’ AI systems from security review – Washington Post
New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry – Arstechnica
Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order – Semafor
India Is Moving Fast to Catch Up in A.I. A Coastal City Fears the Fallout. – New York Times
Censorship in Chinese AI models can be undone, new research shows – Semafor
How Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle – New York Times
Political text messages could get more effective and annoying. Blame AI – NPR
The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Be AI Slop – Futurism
Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution – New York Times
What AI companies want for the millions they’re spending on elections – CNBC
AI-generated video of Vermont congressional race tests new state disclosure law – WCAX
In Texas, AI-generated political ads are blurring the line between real and fake- Poynter
As Voters Grow Anxious Over A.I., Trump Shrugs Off the Concern - New York Times
The test isn't whether an institution is perfect, but rather how it responds when evil is exposed. -David French
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