Gina Chua
@ginaskchua.bsky.social
Executive Editor at global news startup Semafor; formerly Reuters, SCMP and WSJ. TJA member. Exploring new forms of journalism and where the profession is heading.
Some news: Starting today, the Tow-Knight Center will be the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures-Knight, with a focus on how generative AI will change how people find, access and consume news and information, and how journalism needs to meet that moment to fulfill our mission
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Some news: Starting today, the Tow-Knight Center will be the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures-Knight, with a focus on how generative AI will change how people find, access and consume news and information, and how journalism needs to meet that moment to fulfill our mission
I'm moving my 15-year-old blog to Substack. My first post there — about that BBC/EBU study about the quality of AI-intermediated news, and what it does — and doesn't — say about how people are coming to news. Please subscribe. It's free!
restructurednews.substack.com/p/welcome
restructurednews.substack.com/p/welcome
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm moving my 15-year-old blog to Substack. My first post there — about that BBC/EBU study about the quality of AI-intermediated news, and what it does — and doesn't — say about how people are coming to news. Please subscribe. It's free!
restructurednews.substack.com/p/welcome
restructurednews.substack.com/p/welcome
What could you do with an army of interns? Could they alleviate the information overload issue? My latest post about creative uses of AI avatars — and one of my last posts there before I migrate the site later this week.... (I'll send a note out soon.)
bit.ly/4hMJobq
bit.ly/4hMJobq
An Army of Interns
Do you remember news budgets? You know, the documents that listed everything your news organization was planning to publish that day/week/month? Do you remember reading any of the…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What could you do with an army of interns? Could they alleviate the information overload issue? My latest post about creative uses of AI avatars — and one of my last posts there before I migrate the site later this week.... (I'll send a note out soon.)
bit.ly/4hMJobq
bit.ly/4hMJobq
Let's ask AI with AI thinks about journalism and AI — and then ask AI to critique what AI thinks of AI on journalism and AI, and then ask AI to... you get the idea. Plus, a guest post from Claude on AI and journalism. It's recursive Monday here at the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY
bit.ly/3JqQnKD
bit.ly/3JqQnKD
AI on AI on AI on AI…
We — at least me, anyway — have a lot to say about how AI will affect journalism. But what does AI think?Someone asked it. (Wish it had been me, but I can’t be everywhere…) The ans…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Let's ask AI with AI thinks about journalism and AI — and then ask AI to critique what AI thinks of AI on journalism and AI, and then ask AI to... you get the idea. Plus, a guest post from Claude on AI and journalism. It's recursive Monday here at the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY
bit.ly/3JqQnKD
bit.ly/3JqQnKD
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“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell on Long Island.
“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”
“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”
British newspaper spoke to the wrong DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter’
How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.
www.semafor.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell on Long Island.
“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”
“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion.”
Large Language Models made not be great at facts, but they're becoming impressively good at editing — and that speaks to their potential value both in journalism and in new news products. My (now-regular) blog for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY.
bit.ly/3L1LNTD
bit.ly/3L1LNTD
Claude, Editor
What are Large Language Models good at? And why does that matter?To be sure, there’s a long list of things they’re not good at, which we spend a lot of time dwelling on — not least disce…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Large Language Models made not be great at facts, but they're becoming impressively good at editing — and that speaks to their potential value both in journalism and in new news products. My (now-regular) blog for the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY.
bit.ly/3L1LNTD
bit.ly/3L1LNTD
How do we ensure we serve all audiences in an AI-intermediated news landscape — from high-end users who can afford to pay for news to agents that will operate on our behalf, and the rest of us....
bit.ly/4nbXKmQ
bit.ly/4nbXKmQ
Archipelagos, Agents and Audiences
Who do we serve in an AI age? Or more precisely, how do we see our public service mission in an AI age? The ever-insighful Tony Haile wrote a smart piece earlier this month about how AI would…
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October 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
How do we ensure we serve all audiences in an AI-intermediated news landscape — from high-end users who can afford to pay for news to agents that will operate on our behalf, and the rest of us....
bit.ly/4nbXKmQ
bit.ly/4nbXKmQ
More musings on media: When does a change in degree become a change in kind? How does Gen AI's impact on marginal costs — on personalization, on coding, on investigations — upend our previous assumptions about how we approach them? bit.ly/42AitcO
An audience of one — and the economies of one
What do you not want people to know that you don’t know?That’s the theme of a smart piece by my friend Shuwei Fang for the Shorenstein Center earlier this year that I’m shamelessly cribbing from.&n…
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October 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
More musings on media: When does a change in degree become a change in kind? How does Gen AI's impact on marginal costs — on personalization, on coding, on investigations — upend our previous assumptions about how we approach them? bit.ly/42AitcO
Another week, another post: This one on yet another way to deconstruct stories with Gen AI, and perhaps help reporters see blind spots and readers get broader perspectives....
structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/d...
structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/d...
Deconstruction, Part Deux
Can Gen AI help improve media literacy? When we launched Semafor three years ago, we debuted a story structure that we dubbed — what else? — the “Semaform.”The idea was that we owed it to readers t…
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October 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Another week, another post: This one on yet another way to deconstruct stories with Gen AI, and perhaps help reporters see blind spots and readers get broader perspectives....
structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/d...
structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/d...
How can we design systems that incorporate multiple perspectives on news — and come up with a more efficient way to read across different news sources as well? An idea:
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structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...
Deconstruction
Can the technology that will likely drive us deeper into filter bubbles help us break out of them?The promise of Generative AI-intermediated news that we’ll get more personalized, more useful, more…
structureofnews.wordpress.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
How can we design systems that incorporate multiple perspectives on news — and come up with a more efficient way to read across different news sources as well? An idea:
structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...
structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...
Musings on Mediocrity: Some thoughts about how AI upends how we will look at and value skills, knowledge and qualifications across a host of industries — and how competition, especially in the middle tier, is about to get a lot tougher, even as new jobs and new roles are created.
bit.ly/4nBe1Ck
bit.ly/4nBe1Ck
The Great Leveling
As I lean into my new gig at CUNY and the Tow-Knight Center, I’ll be writing more and more regularly about the intersection of journalism and AI (or just AI, sometimes.) Here’s the first in m…
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September 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Musings on Mediocrity: Some thoughts about how AI upends how we will look at and value skills, knowledge and qualifications across a host of industries — and how competition, especially in the middle tier, is about to get a lot tougher, even as new jobs and new roles are created.
bit.ly/4nBe1Ck
bit.ly/4nBe1Ck
Thanks, Dick!
Great choice for CUNY Journalism. Congrats to all.
Some news about me: I'm joining CUNY's J-school to lead its Tow-Knight Center, focusing on the intersection of journalism and AI and how we need to adapt to this brave new world. (I also remain Semafor's executive editor at large).
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Thanks, Dick!
And a piece I wrote about how AI will upend everything about news — what we do, how we do it, who we do it for, and how we get paid for it....
And how we need to get ahead of those changes.
www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
And how we need to get ahead of those changes.
www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
How AI will upend the news
Generative AI promises to revolutionize people’s relationship with information — and news organizations need to get ahead of that change.
www.semafor.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
And a piece I wrote about how AI will upend everything about news — what we do, how we do it, who we do it for, and how we get paid for it....
And how we need to get ahead of those changes.
www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
And how we need to get ahead of those changes.
www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
Some news about me: I'm joining CUNY's J-school to lead its Tow-Knight Center, focusing on the intersection of journalism and AI and how we need to adapt to this brave new world. (I also remain Semafor's executive editor at large).
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...
Award-Winning Media Executive Gina Chua Named Executive Director of Tow-Knight Center - Newmark J-School
Newmark J-School announced the appointment of Gina Chua as Executive Director of the Tow-Knight Center. Chua, currently Executive Editor at Semafor, brings nearly four decades of international media e...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Some news about me: I'm joining CUNY's J-school to lead its Tow-Knight Center, focusing on the intersection of journalism and AI and how we need to adapt to this brave new world. (I also remain Semafor's executive editor at large).
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...
www.journalism.cuny.edu/2025/09/awar...
Vibe coding won't just make making what companies make cheaper and faster; it'll likely remake how they make it, and what they make. The economics of product management are likely to be upended as scarcity of coding skills turns into plenty: www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale
As the cost and difficulty of coding falls, how do companies adapt strategies and processes built on husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources?
www.semafor.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Vibe coding won't just make making what companies make cheaper and faster; it'll likely remake how they make it, and what they make. The economics of product management are likely to be upended as scarcity of coding skills turns into plenty: www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
If ads can be personalized, how long before we get completely personalized news, created in the moment, based on what we know and what we care about - and is that a good thing or a bad thing? Some thoughts @semafor.com : www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
If AI can personalize ads, why not news?
A future where AI can create content on the fly will upend news and the news industry.
www.semafor.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If ads can be personalized, how long before we get completely personalized news, created in the moment, based on what we know and what we care about - and is that a good thing or a bad thing? Some thoughts @semafor.com : www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
Reposted by Gina Chua
🟡 NEW: The group chats that changed America
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
🟡 NEW: The group chats that changed America
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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The prolific Bloomberg tech journalist Ashlee Vance has left to start a new media company around his curious, generally optimistic inquiries into technology and science.
Ashlee Vance launches media startup Core Memory | Semafor
The company will produce high-end documentaries along with the usual “digital” products.
www.semafor.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The prolific Bloomberg tech journalist Ashlee Vance has left to start a new media company around his curious, generally optimistic inquiries into technology and science.
Reposted by Gina Chua
🟡 SCOOP: Meta is overhauling its global policy team, replacing President Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan, his deputy and the company’s most prominent Republican.
Meta will appoint Republican Joel Kaplan to lead global policy team, replacing Nick Clegg | Semafor
Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.
www.semafor.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🟡 SCOOP: Meta is overhauling its global policy team, replacing President Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan, his deputy and the company’s most prominent Republican.
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🟡 NEW: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent, @maxtani.bsky.social reports.
Kaitlan Collins’ star rises at CNN | Semafor
The 32-year-old anchor could soon be lead White House correspondent.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:50 PM
🟡 NEW: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent, @maxtani.bsky.social reports.