The following address was presented at the Tech X — Future of News event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on June 20 2023. VIDEO of the talk is available here. In 1791, when our First Amendment came to be, one could not have imagined what it…

On the emergence of AI, the consideration of public policy, and addressing the challenge of irrelevance Keynote presented to the annual congress of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publisher (WAN-IFRA) in Taiwan on June 29, 2023. …

Over the last year the following observations regarding the challenges facing journalism in our modern digital age have been delivered in speeches to audiences around the world. This is a composite of those addresses. In 1975, a wise mentor told me, “if you’re interested in the future of media, in…

Keynote delivered to the International Symposium of Online Journalists on Friday, April 1, 2022 in Austin, Texas. In 1974, I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service on implementing the first satellite network for delivering television programs to stations across the United States. HBO was on a similar pioneering path. Until…

A look backward at a look forward from 1978 — From 1973 to 1977 I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service in Washington, DC. Interesting times at PBS. The Watergate Hearings began that first summer. PBS aired them gavel-to-gavel incurring the wrath of still-President Nixon. I started as a file clerk, the assistant to the assistant to vice president for…

Or how I became the Queen’s limo driver because I had no choice — In late September Tesla updated the software of my Model S (Performance, 2018) and advised that I now had the option to participate in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta . …

In 1994 I was working at Apple Computer. We were exploring new online services. This was the time of The Source, Compuserve, America Online and Apple’s own fledgling offering, eWorld. The consumer Internet was just around the corner. In Boulder, Colorado we had a small research group called the Apple…

Keynote delivered to the 75th Assembly of the Society of Inter-American Press. (SIP-IAPA) on Monday, October 7, 2019 in Miami, Florida. Good morning. It’s an honor for me to speak here at the Inter American Press Association 75th General Assembly. SIP has been a relentless guardian for freedom of expression…

Keynote delivered in Bagnaia, Italy on May 25 at “Growing Between the Lines”, a conference presented by the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori, an intimate gathering of Italian editors and publishers, global media and technology leaders, plus a few hundred accomplished students, the next generation of Italian leadership. One point seven billion…