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19 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2010s
At The Washington Post, departures forced by buyouts or layoffs were marked by cakes wheeled into the newsroom, known as 'cakings.'
“any time that someone was forced to take a buyout or forced to leave they would bring in a cake they would wheel in cakes”
2010
Gustavo, the club owner Nori Amaya had been seeing, gave an interview about her murder to The Washington Post in 2010.
“Gustavo didn't respond to our outreach, so his perspective comes from a 2010 interview that he gave to the Washington Post about Nori's murder.”
2014
Katherine Boyle worked at The Washington Post from 2010 to early 2014 and left as Jeff Bezos bought the paper.
“I was there from 2010 to early 2014 I actually left right as Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post”
2018
Katherine Boyle wrote a Washington Post piece in 2018 arguing that Silicon Valley was doing much of the work of government.
“I wrote a piece for the Washington Post in 2018 about how actually it seemed like Silicon Valley was actually doing a lot of the work of government.”
2026
A Washington Post poll found about eight in ten Americans would rather not watch the planned execution livestream.
“it's eight and ten Americans, according to a brand new Washington Post poll”
Undated
The Washington Post style section published a 10,000-word piece comparing the convenience stores Sheetz and Wawa while Katherine Boyle worked there.
“one of the famous pieces style section published when I was there was the difference between sheets and Wawa and it was a 10,000 word piece on just like convenience stores on the interstate”
Undated
The Washington Post says it has published over 100,000 personalized AI podcasts.
“We have published about over 100,000 personalized podcasts by now.”
Undated
Khosla says listeners finish the Post's personalized AI podcasts more often than its regular podcasts.
“The completion rate of these podcasts, it's actually higher than the completion rate of normal podcasts that we publish.”
Undated
The Post's personalized podcast tool struggled with articles that used many third-person pronoun references.
“it has a lot of trouble when you have lot of third person references in an article.”
Undated
The Washington Post built an internal generative AI tool called Haystacker that lets journalists search through hours of video.
“We have a tool called Haystacker, which can go through hours and hours of videos.”
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Haystacker was created for cases where reporters received large amounts of video or data that would take weeks to review manually.
“Somebody gave a reporter a lot of videos, somebody gave a reporter a lot of data and said, Hey, something's going on over here.”
Undated
The Washington Post launched Ripple, a project bringing opinion content from sections across America to its audience through partnerships.
“We recently started something called Ripple, so it's Washington Post dot com slash Ripple, where we are going to opinion sections across America”
Undated
The Washington Post's website shows a ticker of other news organizations' homepage content at no charge.
“We are letting other news organizations what they're putting on their homepage almost run for free on our site”
Undated
The Washington Post uses a large language model hosted on a private instance, which simplified its information security policy.
“We are using a LLM that we are hosting on a private instance.”
Undated
The Washington Post labels AI-generated article summaries as AI summaries.
“We still label AI summaries that this is an AI summary.”
Undated
Khosla says the Post has not published fully AI-generated video and does not plan to, and would use stronger disclaimers if it did.
“if we put a full AI generated video, which we haven't done so far and we don't plan on, we would put stronger disclaimers.”
Undated
Khosla interviewed with owner Jeff Bezos as part of being hired at The Washington Post.
“I interviewed with Washington Post, they had a great team. I interviewed with Jeff Bezos”
Undated
Khosla says consumer trust used to rest with news mastheads before shifting to online creators.
“The trust of consumers used to be with the mastheads, right? You would read a newspaper because you trusted that there were standards and procedures and professionals”
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Josh Tyrangiel began reporting on AI by writing what he describes as The Washington Post's first AI column.
“as I was beginning to write what was, I guess, the first AI column for the Washington Post, I went out to the valley.”
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