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Evan Hirsch helps lead and coordinate OpenAI’s adoption efforts for the journalism industry, working closely with newsroom leaders and across OpenAI’s Global Affairs and Media Partnerships teams. Before joining OpenAI, he spent more than two decades in broadcast journalism, most recently as a Senior Producer at NBC News, where he began building AI tools to support newsroom work. He previously held key editorial roles at MSNBC and CBS News, and started his career producing local television newscasts in Philadelphia, Columbus, and Syracuse.

Mark Murray is the Editorial Director at OpenAI, where he helps lead editorial strategy and content development for the company’s Global Affairs team. He also oversees The Prompt, OpenAI’s flagship newsletter, which delivers weekly news, essays, and data on AI’s impact on work, public policy, and society.

Before joining OpenAI, Murray spent more than two decades covering American politics at NBC News. He managed the network’s political coverage, authored and edited its First Read newsletter, appeared regularly as an on-air analyst, and oversaw its extensive polling operation. Earlier in his career, he reported on transportation policy, education policy, and national politics for National Journal.

A 1996 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Murray lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with his wife, Sasha, and their teenage son, Caleb.