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David Cohn demonstrated how to use AI to summarize poll responses and put them in a useful format for reporters to digest

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I study people, technology, and the worlds they make. My latest book, SHORTER: WORK BETTER, SMARTER, AND LESS-- HERE'S HOW (Public Affairs 2020), shows how companies can move to 4-day weeks without cutting salaries, reducing profits, or sacrificing productivity.

It builds on my last book, REST: WHY YOU GET MORE DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS (Basic Books 2016), which explores the role that deliberate rest plays in the lives of creative and productive people. The latest paperback edition features a foreword by Arianna Huffington.

REST builds on ideas I started exploring in THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION (Little, Brown & Co. 2013), which explained how we can use information technologies to stay focused and be more creative, rather than distracted and fractured.

Together, these books have been translated into more than twenty languages, from Arabic to Chinese to Icelandic to Spanish.

I studied history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, and have held fellowships at Williams College, University of California-Berkeley, and Microsoft Research Cambridge. I'm currently Global Programs Director at 4 Day Week Global, and work with companies, governments, and nonprofits interested in implementing a 4-day week.

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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less [Pang, Alex Soojung-Kim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

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Great newsletter for people working in SEO

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Making sense of search for publishers.

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"SEO explained simply, with actionable tips to better understand how your content is discovered online."

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Making sense of search for publishers. Click to read "WTF is SEO?", a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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A tool for listening to social conversation 

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A tool for listening to social conversation 

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Access for free via Knight’s election hub

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Junkipedia is a monitoring and analysis tool developed by, and for, social media investigators. We allow you to track and analyze public content across 15 different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, TikTok and Telegram.

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Know what people are curious about/what problems you can solve

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Know what people are curious about/what problems you can solve

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https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=547&hl=en

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Trust in news comes from soft news and systems reporting more than hard news. New distribution systems should meet people where they are.

https://inn.org/news/rural-news-network-communities-journalism-microsoft/

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News delivery to rural communities gets a boost with support from Microsoft

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The Rural News Network from the Institute for Nonprofit News has become a powerful consortium of independent, nonprofit publishers that informs and

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A Checklist for Thoughtful Newsroom Rollouts

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A Checklist for Thoughtful Newsroom Rollouts

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A Checklist for Thoughtful Newsroom Rollouts

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A Checklist for Thoughtful Newsroom Rollouts This tip sheet was created by Eric Athas and Kwame Opam. It was adapted from a presentation they gave at the Online News Association conference on Sept. 20, 2024. If you have questions, contact Eric (eric.athas@nytimes.com) or Kwame (kopam@suntimes.co…

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Explore and analyze large collections of documents using the best of Google's Search and AI technology

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Handout with slides and links from my Wonder Tools ONA talk

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One of the most human quality: curiosity 

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One of the most human quality: curiosity 

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We are constantly making sense of the world around us. But is that enough to satiate our ever-expanding curiosity? How do we ensure that our curiosity is directed toward meaningful pursuits?

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Signage proposal for newsrooms:

Be a good human. Tell human stories. Solve human problems.

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https://www.leadstory.com

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Use AI as a way to subtract things and make your job more efficient and lean into the ways we can be more human and present and spend less time on the things that don’t TRULY matter or are time wasters

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Promoting dignity and precision in the practice of international journalism

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Diversity in covering missing persons. From the ONA panel: 

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Diversity in covering missing persons. From the ONA panel: 

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Support the Black and Missing Foundation | Donate

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Your donation helps us provide financial support for families, assist in victim recovery and burial services, and create safety programs.

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should we rely on devices to say what's authentic?

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should we rely on devices to say what's authentic?

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Leica and Content Authenticity Initiative | Leica Camera JP

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Dr Andreas Kaufmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Leica Camera AG: "Leica cameras have always stood witness to iconic moments in world history. However, determining the authenticity of visual content has become increasingly difficult and important in the age of digital photography.

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Go to the ISOJ conference in the spring, March 27-28 in Austin

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Go to the ISOJ conference in the spring, March 27-28 in Austin

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Lisa Kay Solomon: How do practices of improv help us get into a more creative and open mindset?

Dan Klein: The essence of improvisational practice is that we have to be present. Most forms of theater operate off a pre-planned script. One of the things that happens when we're acting off something already scripted is we're planning ahead. Improv doesn't have a script. It asks us to focus our attention entirely on the present-on what's happening right now.

And the moment that you're thinking about something else, asking yourself, "What am I gonna do? What am I gonna say next?," you're taken out of it.

"As soon as you get the ego out of it, great work happens."

The other thing central to improv is that it's not about you; it's about your partner. And your job is to make your partner look good, to give them a good time, to make sense of what they say and do and, in a sense, to celebrate them. And that takes all the pressure off of yourself.

As soon as you get the ego out of it, great work happens. It doesn't matter what you were thinking in the moment. What your partner just said is a thousand times better. When we're in that open and generous mode, amazing things happen. Our own creativity naturally gets unlocked, but we're not trying to unlock it. We're just there for our partner.

LKS: You've been teaching improvisation to Stanford students and industry executives for nearly 20 years. What are some of the unique skills of improvisation? How are they learned?

DK: Thanks to the success of Saturday Night Live and Chicago's Second City improv theater, infamous for launching comedic actors like Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey, among others, there is popular belief that improvisation is purely comedy based. A lot of people come to improv thinking they are going to learn to be funny.

When I first started, I was very intrigued at the idea of making people laugh, but when I got into the classroom, I realized that's not the best way to go about it. I've learned that one of the worst things you can do as an improviser is try to make a joke. More often than not, your joke won't work and then you'll have a silence that is the worst death you can imagine.

"Everybody has the capacity to notice what's going on, pay attention, and then add a little bit."

And so you learn that rather than try to steal the scene by being funny, it's much better to respond to what's unfolding in the moment, and to focus on helping your partner look good. It turns out that what you can create together is funnier than you ever thought it could be.

That was a fundamental lesson in that first class. We're not capitalizing on the skill that you already have. We're recognizing that everybody has the capacity to notice what's going on, pay attention, and then add a little bit. And, if you do those things, you don't have to be clever or funny or interesting. You have to learn how to pay attention and respond to what's next.

Over the years, I've found it's almost impossible for me to predict which students will be the most exciting to watch on stage. It's not the ones that look like they're going to be the best. It surprises me almost every class who holds our attention the most. I do think it's learnable. I might be wrong, but I've staked my entire career on the concept that improv is learnable.

LKS: How can improv help us get more comfortable with taking risks and learning from failure?

DK: When I work with any group, whether they're students or executives, I often start with a game that intentionally exposes them to failure. I want them to experience how we respond to failure. Our normal reaction is to tense up. We wince, or flinch, or cringe almost instinctually. We physically and literally guard or protect ourselves. My theory is that we're defending ourselves in case we're about to be punished.

"Mistakes are opportunities. Mistakes are gifts."

But that response is not resilient or responsive or generative or agile. And those are all the things we want people to do in their work-especially when things get more complex. So one of the first things I do is have people experience the exact opposite response to failure. We want to celebrate failure. We want to embrace it as an indication that we're on the right track. If we're messing up, we're in new creative territory. Mistakes are opportunities. Mistakes are gifts.

Mistakes don't just offer us a chance to learn, but oftentimes they're a chance to discover something new that nobody was planning. The other thing that I think is incredibly powerful is that when we give each other permission to make mistakes, we bond even faster, and I think that's maybe the secret sauce.

LKS: In this moment, where it feels like a lot of the strategic challenges we're facing are ones that don't have answers, how can improv help us discover new ideas?

DK: Improv is a form of play and discovery. It requires us to get into a more open mode of collaborating by setting up different rules than the ones we've learned to impose on ourselves.

If you think about it, when we were kids, we used play to discover the world. That's how we formed connections, and that's how we learned about social dynamics. As we get older, we enter worlds that don't value play in a measured way. Most of our education and professional environments focus more on execution and performance.

I work with extremely high achieving students who tell me all the time that they feel like they used to be creative when they were a kid. It was a part of themselves that they really valued, and it doesn't seem to be happening anymore. So I think part of my job is to show them ways to get that creativity back. I help them reconnect to their playful selves and help them find inner sources of inspiration. When do they delight? When do they get inspired?

In improv, the key is not just finding this out for yourself but also creating that authentic engagement and delight for others. There's a moment that an improviser has to pay really careful attention to their partner and they're making eye contact as often as they can. You're looking into your partner's eyes, and the great improvisers are trying to get their partner's eyes to light up. That's when you know you've created something special.
Note: The above responses were edited for length and clarity.
This article was originally published on SingularityHub: https://singularityhub.com/2018/02/13/how-to-unlock-creative-collaboration-with-presence-and-play/#sm.00001eywkv92mndgcsfg8m4dnbrww

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Conversation with Storyteller Dan Klein: How to Unlock Creative Collaboration with Presence and Play - Lisa Kay Solomon

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Dan Klein is an improviser, performer, and educator. For the last 20 years, Dan has been teaching classes on improvisational theater , creativity, and storycrafting to Stanford students and executives around the world. He believes the practices of improv are teachable, learnable, and have

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How does this help readers… inspire, inform, divert, educate, keep them on trend etc

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Pick your battles and what you spend your time on

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Pick your battles and what you spend your time on

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We can't keep adding more and more things to our plates without losing quality and burning ourselves out. Try to focus on what makes an impact vs doing everything (and doing it half-assed).

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AI scoring articles for user needs - Rodney Gibbs 

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AI scoring articles for user needs - Rodney Gibbs 

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AI scores the extent to which an article helps readers connect, inform, explain etc and then provides suggested headlines for follow up stories that would help address the lower scoring aspects.

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Code and links for a workshop at ONA24 in Atlanta. Contribute to jkeefe/weather-newsrooms-ona24 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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This place was great for lunch! And shows up on Eater Atlanta guide. If you come back for a conference 

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This place was great for lunch! And shows up on Eater Atlanta guide. If you come back for a conference 

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Key takeaways from ONA24 conference summarized during our concluding session