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Peter Cellino spent a year building AI-assisted editorial infrastructure. Today he wrote about a police blotter. It's not ironic — it's the point.
Peter Cellino·Apr 14, 2026
Charlotte makes decisions like a big city and gets covered like a small town. The Charlotte Mercury was built to change that — independent, free, and answering to the city, not a chain.
Peter Cellino·Mar 29, 2026
The next great media company won't be built in New York. It will be built in a tier-2 city like Charlotte — where billion-dollar public decisions are being made and the press section is empty.
Peter Cellino·Mar 29, 2026
WordPress VIP's CTO calls them "obsidian vaults for your agent harness." We call it the system that runs The Charlotte Mercury. The model is a commodity. The documents you feed it are not.
Peter Cellino·Mar 26, 2026
Mercury Local's publisher on the difference between getting AI to write one article and building an editorial operation that self-corrects, accumulates institutional knowledge, and produces…
Peter Cellino·Mar 26, 2026
Peter Cellino on why 213 counties have no local news, why the places that do aren't much better off, and why he built Mercury Local — an AI-assisted publishing infrastructure designed to rebuild the…
Peter Cellino·Mar 24, 2026
