Reporting about the climate crisis can feel incredibly lonely, but it does not have to be. Communities of climate change journalists have multiplied in the past couple of years, ranging from country-w...
Jessica Davis
Jessica Davis is Senior Director of Data Initiatives and News Automation at USA TODAY, where she leads a team to formulate engaging offerings that contribute value to digital subscription business by growing databases and adoption of news automation tools.
Previously, while at Gannett, Jessica started up the Digital Optimization Team initiative — first for building a regional model to grow six local news websites in Tennessee and then to accelerate audience and subscription growth with 250 newsrooms. She also expanded the Localizer Project, which uses AI tools (Natural Language Generation) to create localized content for Gannett's newsrooms using data journalism.
Before joining Gannett, Jessica served as the digital director for video at the Los Angeles News Group, where she developed digital growth strategies for newsrooms that included the L.A. Daily News. She also built strategic teams early in her career for AOL's Patch.com and City News Service.
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 may be a milestone on the road to newsroom automation. ChatGPT is already demonstrating plausible performance on journalistic tasks like summarisation and copy ...
