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The Media Industry’s AI Transformation: From Newsrooms to AI-Powered Experience Engines

The newsroom was eerily quiet. Where once the cacophony of ringing phones, clacking keyboards, and urgent conversations filled the air, now only the soft h...

· 19 min read
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Understanding the Role of Product in Media Companies and Tech Companies

I enumerated the role of product management in my earlier article titled The Many Hats of Product Managers: Their Indispensable Hands-On Roles as Individua...

· 18 min read
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On this Father’s Day, may your life be as marvelous as your social media presence

On Social Media, Many of Us Are Happy Heroes In the age of social media, it''s easy to get caught up in the carefully cultivated personas that people prese...

· 5 min read
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Harvard NiemanLab article: Acing the Algorithmic Beat, Journalism’s Next Frontier

Read the article I co-authored, Acing the Algorithmic Beat, Journalism's Next Frontier at Harvard University's NiemanLab. In a world where key decisions ar...

· 1 min read
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The Future of Journalism: How AI Can Assist Journalists and Create Compelling Storytelling Experiences

The future of journalism is approaching, and it will be powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Throughout my career in news media, I've explored how AI c...

· 5 min read
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Hackathon: Impact Journalism in New York

On April 8-9 2016, the Global Editors Network (GEN), The Huffington Post and Change.org will gather the best media innovators in New York for a two-day Edi...

· 1 min read
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9 Reasons Why News Media Web Sites Should Consider Moving to HTTPS in 2015

If you work in news media and are interested in technology, you may enjoy my article listing 9 Reasons Why News Media Web Sites Should Consider Moving to H...

· 1 min read
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AppSec USA: Security & Journalism Panel

At the AppSec USA conference Rajiv and his fellow panelists, reporters and IT pros, discussed how security issues have affected them and leading-edge softw...

· 1 min read
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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014

At the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014  ("Summer Davos") hosted in Tianjin, China  – Rajiv spoke at the sessions “The Cha...

· 1 min read
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Three Pillars of a Media/Publishing Company

Questions: Where should product be depicted? Is product an extension of the journalism (newsroom)? In this way of thinking, all products including Web, mob...

· 1 min read
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Columbia University’s Journalism School’s Spring Journalism and Technology Breakfast Event

At Columbia University's Journalism School's Spring Journalism and Technology Breakfast event, Rajiv Pant, CTO at The New York Times and Sam Curry, CTO, Id...

· 1 min read
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Genwi Conference on The Future of Content and Monetization

Rajiv was a speaker at Genwi's conference on The Future of Content and Monetization in New York. (September 27, 2012)

· 1 min read
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Future of Content Management for News Media for Web sites

Content on Web sites should be managed using systems that were designed from the ground up for the Web. Traditional content management systems with a legac...

· 3 min read
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Patrick Burke, Senior Manager of Product, Cox Media Group

Patrick Burke shared this recommendation for Rajiv on February 22, 2006 via LinkedIn: Rajiv works well in a rapidly evolving, high-demand environment. He h...

· 1 min read
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Consistency in Labeling Ads as “advertisements” on Content Sites

Some newspaper and magazine web sites visibly label some ads on their web pages as "advertisements" but don't mark other ads including their own in-house...

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Eight Years at Knight Ridder: Building the Digital Newsroom

Reflections on nearly eight years at Knight Ridder, from solving publishing problems at 20 to VP Engineering leading Cofax development for 31 newspapers.

· 10 min read
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Medill School of Journalism and the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University

In 2003 & 2002, Rajiv was invited by the Medill School of Journalism and the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University. He gave lectures on ne...

· 1 min read
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Newspaper Association of America (NAA)’s Conferences

Rajiv spoke on CTO panels at the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)'s conferences. In NEXPO 2002 and 2003, he spoke about technology and business topics ...

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