Nate Kelly

Signal & Noise

Technology EN ↓ 2 episodes

Weekly AI-generated analysis at the intersection of media and artificial intelligence. Script written by Claude. Voice by ElevenLabs. Published every Friday.

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Nate Kelly

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Ep. 3: When the Traffic Disappears Who Survives 06.04.2026

Earlier this year, the Washington Post announced it would cut roughly thirty percent of its workforce, citing AI as part of the reason. Let that land for a second. One of the most storied newsrooms in American journalism, the paper that broke Watergate, is slashing nearly a third of its staff, and a...

Ep. 1: The Newsroom That Fired Its Memory 05.04.2026

Three weeks ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer quietly laid off its entire archive research team. Twelve people, most of them with more than a decade at the paper, replaced by an internal retrieval system built on top of a fine-tuned large language model. The system can surface any story from 1829 to ye...