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. Moderated By
Olivia Smith is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, media consultant and AI specialist based in Los Angeles. She is a versatile content creator and storyteller with more than 20 years of experience in print, broadcast and digital journalism. Olivia is the CEO of Media Consulting Coaches , specializing in media training, public speaking, content creation and AI strategy. She is also an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Olivia spent nearly a decade at Disney, working in inaugural digital positions for ABC News, Good Morning America and ABC7, and has contributed to numerous outlets including CNN, 60 Minutes, Al Jazeera, NY1 News and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has also worked on the GenAI Content Engineering team at Meta, guiding model training and optimizing machine learning processes. Her expertise in AI overlaps with her love of storytelling. Olivia has created courses for USC on journalism and AI, and she often leads workshops and speaking engagements on AI tools and strategy. Her goal is to empower creators to use technology ethically, maximizing their impact even with limited resources. Olivia created and hosts the AI podcast Prompt Response. Find her on social media @LivNews.
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