“A one-person AI newsroom”
On Tuesday I joined Intelligent Machines — the TWiT network’s weekly AI show, hosted by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau — to talk about Tucson Daily Brief. The headline up there isn’t mine; it’s the chyron TWiT put under my name. I’m keeping it.
The conversation was about what you’re reading right now: how one working journalist covers the City of Tucson, Pima County, Marana, and Oro Valley every morning — the agenda packets, the council meetings, the public filings — and where software carries the scale while a human carries the judgment. The episode description asks whether “a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools” can “outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting.” You can watch the whole thing and decide for yourself:
It capped a busy week on the network: on Sunday I was a panelist on This Week in Tech, TWiT’s flagship, talking the week’s tech news alongside the pros. Getting to talk about Tucson — the coyote art on my wall made it on camera, which felt right — on shows I’ve listened to for years was a genuine treat.
If the show brought you here: welcome. Tucson Daily Brief is a free morning read of the Tucson news that tends to fall through the cracks — what the city, county, Marana, and Oro Valley are deciding, what’s opening near you, and the day’s big Southern Arizona stories. No ads, no paywall, just me. The full story of how it’s made is on the About page, and the Sunday newsletter is one box below this paragraph.