01 Featured essayIndependent, by design.
What AI actually did
What I decided, what the machine built, what it got wrong.
Patch Taught a Machine to Read the News. We Taught Ours to Read the Town.
One person, sixteen publications, six months
Start here
The work, and what’s behind it.A few places to start.
Every article carries its receipts
What it means to show the work behind the reporting.
We Won't Publish Guilt-by-Proximity Headlines
The decisions that matter before a headline goes live.
Two Newsrooms, One Arrest Log
What a local newsroom chooses to do differently.