The Haymaker Media Summit was full of amazing content. Here’s a quick recap of the AI and crypto reporting panels.
AI Reporting Panel
Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch
Top topics for stories: AI intersects with policy, TC covers startups, insider baseball tech helping all of AI ecosystem, where funding come from, departures from larger companies to new startups, “such a moving field”
Good sources? White paper engineer authors, analysts
Hayden Field, The Verge
Covering AI for six years - changed a lot
Top topics: the story of power stays the same, power dynamics and society implications, top players changed, infrastructure providers are more powerful, only a handful are big players - hold them accountable “sometimes feels like I’m covering a soap opera”
6 years ago you started covering AI. What was it like then? About how algorithms can be biased
Good sources? Researchers, investors, smart ppl who worked across a few AIcompanies
“White men of the same age are in charge and people are well aware.”
Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes
Want real revenue to include company, AIimpacting society/live
Good sources? Investors, founders, PRs
Crypto Reporting Panel
Nina Bambysheva, Forbes
Top story she's looking for: Cryptogrowing up
She likes contrarian stories - founders take a different route, firms with a lot of liquid cash, regulatory innovation
Story not told enough: The range of scams
Leo Schwartz, Fortune
Top story he's looking for: Cryptogrowing up
He likes stories on money & power (including culture)
Story not told: Crypto outside the US
Yueqi Yang, The Information
Top story she's looking for: Trump's impact on crypto
Story not told: Origin stories behind crypto tech