For working journalists
A three-day live online course on using AI properly in a newsroom — taught by a working editor, not an academic. Build a working AI editorial system on your own machine, using your own stories.
3 days. Your stories. A working system. First intake opening soon.
The only course in Australia built specifically for AI in the newsroom — how to actually use it, taught by an editor who uses it every week to produce a real newspaper.
Most AI training for journalists teaches you what AI can do. This teaches you how to use it — to produce the full digital publishing package from a single input, in your voice, to your style guide, in minutes.
Whether you're filing for print, web, socials, or all of the above, the techniques apply. The system I built handles all of it in my newsroom every week. This course teaches you to build your own version.
Bring your own stories and we'll work on them. By the end of Day 1 you'll be editing them with AI in your own voice. By the end of Day 3 you'll have a system that does it every time you file.
The course at a glance
A small intake live on Google Meet — small enough that we work through each person's actual stories. Not a lecture series. A working session.
What you'll learn
Three days. Three steps. By the end you'll have a personal library of AI skills you understand, own, and can extend — not a black box, not my system on your machine, but yours.
Get the story right
- Prompt engineering foundation — how to direct AI per-story (angle, source hierarchy, exclusions, tone)
- Build your style guide skill — your publication's rules captured as a reusable AI skill
- Build your personal voice skill — AI edits that sound like you, not a machine
- Combine them: rough copy in, publishable copy out — with fact-checking and local name verification built in
Produce the package
- Interview transcription with Gemini AI Studio — clean text with automatic name and spelling verification
- Build your headline and subhead skill — generate them automatically from every story you file
- Build your social skill — Facebook, Instagram, and X variants matched to your publication's voice
- Build your stock image skill — personalised AI images with a living editorial best-practice file
Build your workflow
- Install Claude Desktop and load your skill library
- Wire your skills into three Cowork tasks — Sub Edit (your drafts), Media Release Edit (incoming releases), Polish & Fact-Check Pass (final sweep)
- Build your specialty skill — I demo with sports, you build yours for whatever beat you cover most
- Run the full workflow end-to-end with your own stories
What you leave with
Not theory. Not slides. A real working system on your own machine — and the techniques to keep extending it as your filing requirements change.
Your personal skill library — five modular AI skills you built and understand
Style skill — your publication's rules, captured and reusable
Voice skill — AI edits that sound like you
Headline and subhead skill — generated automatically from every story
Social skill — Facebook, Instagram, and X variants in your publication's voice
Stock image skill — with editorial best-practice file
Three integrated Cowork tasks wiring your skills together — Sub Edit, Media Release Edit, Polish & Fact-Check Pass
Interview transcription workflow with Gemini AI Studio
Your own specialty skill — built around your beat, using the same method I use for sports at my paper
Lifetime access to course materials
Certificate of completion
Founding intake pricing
In exchange for founding pricing, I ask for a short written testimonial and permission to use your experience as a case study.
Claim founding pricingHow it works
Four steps from interest to working system. The course runs once a month from intake opening.
Register your interest and we'll confirm your spot in the next intake
You'll get a prep email with what to bring — five recent stories, your publication's social posts and web articles, and an interview recording. The course works on your actual material, not hypotheticals.
Three days live on Google Meet — we build your system together using your own stories
You leave with a working AI editorial system on your own machine
The newsroom changed. The training didn't.
Filing used to mean writing the story. You filed it, you were done. Now it means writing the story, the headline, the subhead, the social posts, the photo caption, the alt text — all before deadline. The pay didn't change. The workload tripled.
Every other AI program for journalists teaches you what AI is. None of them teach you what to do with it on deadline.
This course does. Three days. Bring your stories. Leave with a working system on your own machine.
Every output is a draft. Your judgment is still the final pass. If you can't defend a sentence, it doesn't go in your story.
The AI handles the production. The journalism stays yours.
Got questions?
First intake opening soon. Want to talk it through before claiming a spot? Email me directly — I read everything that comes in.
First intake dates announced soon.