The Media Copilot

If the last decade was about platforms swallowing the press, the next one is about AI mediating everything…how we find news, what we trust, and who gets paid. 

On this episode of The Media Copilot, ho…

Publishers don’t need bigger walls—they need dials. Here’s how to see, price, and shape LLM and agent activity instead of getting steamrolled by it.

If the last two years were about discovering that A…

How Dappier helps publishers move beyond bot-blocking to monetize AI and take charge of their own "answer layer."

This week on The Media Copilot, host Pete Pachal is joined by Dan Goikhman and Krish A…

From “subscriber‐financed stalwart” to AI trailblazer—how The Atlantic built an AI task force, overhauled its search strategy, and struck bold licensing deals to future-proof quality journalism.

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Cloudflare’s move to block AI bots by default could reshape how content is protected online—raising new questions about copyright, scraping, and the future of AI training data.

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From “news wholesaler” to AI innovator—how the Associated Press is adapting to new audience habits, synthetic content, and search-native journalism.

This week on The Media Copilot podcast, host Pete P…

Inside Particle’s mission to fix the way we consume headlines—with AI summaries, source transparency, and more.

This week on The Media Copilot, host Pete Pachal welcomes Sara Beykpour, CEO of Particle…

Hugging Face’s media liaison talks trust, tech, and why the next great newsroom might look more like a dev team.

This week on The Media Copilot, host Pete Pachal welcomes Florent Daudens, longtime Can…

There's something in TollBit's latest State of the Bots report that really jumped out at me. The major AI companies—notably Meta, OpenAI, and Google—have essentially given themselves permission to ig…

What does it take to get AI to notice your content? Scrunch AI’s Chris Andrew shares the secret sauce.

On this episode of The Media Copilot, Pete Pachal welcomes Chris Andrew, CEO of Scrunch AI, to un…

AI risk and the tenacity required.

In this special episode of The Media Copilot podcast, we're diving into the seismic shifts AI is causing in digital publishing. I recently hosted a webinar on AI Ris…

When chatbots summarize your reporting instead of sending audiences to your website, who really wins—and how can creators fight back?

Ahmed Malik, CEO of ScalePost, joins The Media Copilot to unpack t…

Jane Barrett, Head of AI Strategy at Reuters, joins The Media Copilot to share how one of the world’s largest news agencies is actively shaping the future of AI in journalism—without crossing the lin…

Jonathan Roberts of Dotdash Meredith unpacks how one of the largest digital publishers is adapting to AI and the changing nature of online audiences.

The media business is no stranger to disruption—bu…

A revealing conversation with NewsGuard’s Steven Brill on trust, truth, and the battle for clean data in the AI age.  The AI era is rewriting the rules of media — but what happens when disinformation…

By using AI, hyperlocal news platform Patch expanded from 1,100 to over 30,000 communities in a matter of months. How they did it without creating slop.

This week on The Media Copilot, I sat down with…

We're slashing the price of our AI course for PR and media professionals for one day only.

The results from the first cohort of AI for PR & Media Professionals are in. The six-week AI training course …

When Dow Jones’ business intelligence service went down the path of AI, it was determined to avoid stepping on any copyright mines.

This week on The Media Copilot, I sat down with Traci Mabrey, Genera…

For decades, local journalism has been in decline—shrinking budgets, newsroom closures, and disappearing community coverage have left behind what experts call "news deserts." But could AI change that…

AI is rewriting the rules of media, but not all change is for the better. As AI slop floods the internet, the battle over quality, ethics, and authenticity has never been more urgent.

This week on The…