The Rebooting Show Inside The Washington Post's product strategy
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Dec 16, 2025 In this discussion, Vineet Khosla, CTO at The Washington Post with an impressive tech background from Apple and Uber, shares insights on transforming journalism. He explores shifting from traditional perfection to an iterative approach, emphasizing the need for personalized and conversational formats. Vineet argues for media outlets to become platforms rather than mere content suppliers to tech giants. He also highlights the potential of AI in journalism, predicting it will handle summarization while human journalists retain their critical roles.
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Perfectionism Slows Media Innovation
- Media's long success pushed newsrooms toward perfection, making them risk-averse about iteration.
- Tech cultures accept small errors and iterate rapidly, which media must borrow to innovate product experience.
Content Alone Won't Win The Interface
- News must be the core but the product is bigger than an article; publications must build compelling containers.
- Audiences left legacy sites not for journalism but for superior product experiences on other platforms.
Staff Tech Teams Like Core Functions
- Invest in strong tech, product, and AI talent and give them autonomy at the executive level.
- Let expert journalists focus on journalism while empowered tech teams build the product around it.