Digitally Curious now both a bestselling book and a podcast all about the near-term future with practical and actionable advice from a range of global experts to help you stay ahead of the curve.
Running since 2019, the show is hosted by former IBM Global Managing Partner Andrew Grill, who has over 40 years of experience in the technology industry. His new book Digitally Curious features over 60 guests from the show.
S8E5 – From Deadlines to Data: A Journalist’s Guide to AI Without Losing Your Judgement
My guest is Harriet Meyer — award-winning journalist (The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph), AI trainer, and author of the AI for Media newsletter on LinkedIn.
Harriet Meyer's career began in the early 2000s at the Daily Telegraph, chasing stories by phone and lunching with contacts. Today she trains media and communications professionals to use AI without surrendering the critical instincts that make great journalism great. In this conversation, Andrew and Harriet explore where AI genuinely helps newsrooms, where the red lines are, and what every curious professional can borrow from a journalist's toolkit.
Key Topics Covered:
How the UK Budget first showed Harriet what AI could do for journalists drowning in government documents
Why journalistic scepticism is the perfect foundation for working intelligently with AI
The shift from burying heads in the sand to genuine curiosity across newsrooms in 2025/26
Investigative AI wins: the New York Times and the manosphere; Swedish journalists cracking a 40-year-old cold case of an assassinated prime minister
Why writing is still thinking, and how Whisper Flow changed Harriet's drafting process
The fake experts problem, and why journalists are right to be wary
How PR firms are moving from generic AI use to bespoke, client-specific workflows
Being found by AI: Andrew's FAQ-and-schema strategy for AI-native discoverability
The danger of young professionals offloading thinking to AI before they've built the underlying skills
Using AI as a decision partner that surfaces the emotional impact of your work
Harriet's Three Actionable Takeaways:
Go deep and narrow, not wide and shallow — pick one specific use case (research, interview prep, analysis) and really master how AI helps there
Learn the boundaries — test where it fails, check sources, push on quotes, find the gaps
Build human review into the process — use AI as a thought partner, but keep your editorial judgement in charge at every stage
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