Candidates to Run Washington Post Withdraw After Being Asked How They’d Use AI to Run the Newspaper

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Pivotal Moment After its pivot to AI earlier this year, the Washington Post's CEO is now turning off editorial candidates by asking them how they would use the technology to run the newspaper.

As Axios reports based on insider sources, two candidates for the position withdrew themselves from consideration after its publisher and CEO Will Lewis, who was selected by owner Jeff Bezos to "save" the paper and issued the AI edict soon into his tenure, had them lay out their own strategies for using the tech.

As Axios confirmed, neither was interested.

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Author / Journalist: Noor Al-Sibai

Category: Technology

Markets: United States

Topics: The washington post Ai journalism The digest Journalism Artificial Intelligence

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Published On: 2024-12-18 @ 14:05:09 (14 hours ago)

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