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By Virginia Fletcher, CIO I’ve spent much of the last several years deeply immersed in technology transformation inside the news media industry, an industry that has been under sustained pressure for well over a decade. The shift from print to digital didn’t just disrupt revenue streams; it exposed how many of our systems, operating models, and cost structures were built for a world that no longer exists. At the same time, technology expectations have only increased. We are being asked to...

Virginia Mace Fletcher, CIO Artificial Intelligence is no longer an experiment, it’s infrastructure. Every modern organization, especially in media and publishing, now finds itself managing not just servers and platforms, but systems that can think, write, and act. As these capabilities grow, so too does the responsibility of the CIO to define how AI can be used, and how it cannot. My organization recently published our Artificial Intelligence Acceptable Use Policy, a document designed to...

By Virginia Fletcher, CIO A New Paradigm:  Coding by Intent Rather than Syntax In the age of AI, how we think about building software is changing in profound ways. A new term, vibe coding , has surfaced to describe the practice of describing intent in natural language and letting an AI generate the implementation. Instead of painstakingly writing instructions line by line, a developer or even a non-developer simply communicates the outcome: “Create a mobile app that lets users track their...