About this Webinar

How Hearst Newspapers and Polaris Media are using AI to help reporters find information, discover patterns in data, and brainstorm ideas is the focus of this INMA Generative AI Initiative Webinar.

We are pleased to welcome two leaders with remarkable stories to share as our guest speakers:

• Tim O'Rourke, vice president of editorial innovation and AI strategy for Hearst Newspapers, where he leads the group's DevHub editorial engineering, visual and data storytelling, and AI+Automation teams;
• Rune Ytreberg, who leads iTromsø's data journalism lab, where he has been developing AI-driven editorial solutions for 70 local newspapers within the Polaris Media Group since 2020.

The Webinar will be moderated by Sonali Verma, INMA's Generative AI Initiative Lead.

About Hearst Newspapers

Hearst Newspapers publishes 28 dailies and 50 weeklies and is home to famed brands such as The San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Newspapers has more than 2,300 employees across the nation and is part of Hearst Corporation, one of the largest media, information and services companies in the United States. 

About Polaris Media

Polaris Media owns 77 local and regional news brands, of which 60 are in Norway and 17 in Sweden, including Göteborgs-Posten. They reach over a million readers on digital platforms every day. It also has six printing houses and five distribution companies in Norway, as well as one distribution company in Sweden. The group's roots stretch back to 1767.