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[In Person Event] AI at Work in Local News: How Newsrooms Are Using AI Today
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September 29, 2026

[In Person Event] AI at Work in Local News: How Newsrooms Are Using AI Today

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# News Organizations

Join OpenAI Forum and the OpenAI Academy in Los Angeles to explore how news organizations are building responsible AI fluency. The event will combine discussion, demos, and hands-on exercises for newsroom research, source review, planning, audience workflows, product operations, and standards-aware deployment. Attendees should leave with concrete examples, reusable prompts and workflow templates, and a shared language for piloting AI, while keeping attribution, reporting and editorial independence squarely in the hands of human journalists.

Note: This event will be recorded.


Panel Speakers

Kevin Delaney

Kevin Delaney is a journalist and media entrepreneur who co-founded Quartz and Charter and led them to acquisition, was managing editor and a senior writer at The Wall Street Journal, and was senior editor at The New York Times and The Information. He's now editor-in-chief of The San Francisco Standard and Charter, the leading future-of-work media and research company. Kevin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, board chair at the Internews independent media nonprofit, and a graduate of Yale University.

Neil Chase

Neil Chase is CEO at CalMatters, the nonprofit newsroom covering California policy and politics. He was previously executive editor at The Mercury News and East Bay Times, where his team won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage. He worked as an editor at The San Francisco Examiner, The Arizona Republic, CBS MarketWatch and The New York Times and was an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Kristen Miller

Kristen Muller is Executive Editor of The LA Local where she leads a network of community-centered newsrooms serving more than one million Angelenos. Previously, Muller was Chief Content Officer of Southern California Public Radio (LAist.com and 89.3), where she helped transform the organization from a legacy public radio station into a multimedia local newsroom. She brings more than two decades of newsroom experience and an award-winning track record of growing digital audiences, deepening community engagement and leading newsrooms through transformational change.

Speakers

Kevin Delaney
Editor-In-Chief @ San Francisco Standard
Kristen Muller
Executive Editor @ The LA Local
Neil Chase
CEO @ CalMatters
Christina Lim
Media Partnerships @ OpenAI
Evan Hirsch
OpenAI for News @ OpenAI

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Forum Panel Discussion: AI in Local News

Panel discussion with: Kevin Delaney (San Francisco Standard & Charter), Kristen Muller (LA Local), Neil Chase (CalMatters).

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OpenAI Academy Workshop: ChatGPT Work for Newsrooms

OpenAI Academy is hosting ChatGPT Work for Newsrooms, a session on moving from one-off prompts to practical tools built around the work journalists already do.

See how reporters and editors can use ChatGPT Work to research stories, analyze documents and data, prepare interviews, develop coverage plans, and turn dense source material into clear, sourced briefs. We’ll demonstrate how agents, skills, and custom apps can transform a useful workflow into something an entire newsroom can reuse.

Join us for live demos, practical ideas, and a closer look at what becomes possible when ChatGPT works the way your newsroom does.

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Starting in 25 days 2 hours
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September 29, 2026
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