The Houston Chronicle has named Trevor Brown as its AI newsroom developer, a new position that combines technical know-how with journalistic judgment to help the newsroom innovate responsibly.
The Houston Chronicle has named Trevor Brown as its AI newsroom developer, a new position that combines technical know-how with journalistic judgment to help the newsroom innovate responsibly.
In this role, Brown will work closely with reporters and editors across the newsroom to identify high-impact opportunities to make our journalism more personal and accessible, while working to uphold our high newsroom standards regarding the use of AI.
“I'm excited to work alongside the Chronicle staff to use AI to strengthen our reporting, dig deeper into data stories and pursue projects that we didn't think were possible before,” Brown said. “AI, when used responsibly, opens the door to more time for human reporting and brings our readers closer to the news they need.”
Brown was most recently an investigative reporter and data journalist at Oklahoma Watch writing about state government, elections, campaign finance, redistricting and legislative accountability. During his tenure, he scraped and analyzed over 3,600 bills to expose partisan authorship patterns and one-party legislative control.
