Allie Seligman

I teach journalists and build small tools to make sense of the technologies reshaping how news gets made.

Clinical assistant professor Walter Cronkite School, ASU Phoenix, Arizona

Things I’ve made
and am making.

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  1. People of Phoenix

    Real profiles of Phoenix residents, reported by a bot that interviews them over email — built for under-resourced newsrooms and the communities that tend to get left out of coverage.

    Read the profiles How it works

    Bot-reported profiles

  2. Interview Bot

    A practice game that teaches student reporters to ask sharper questions by giving them fewer to spend — get specific, or settle for “any comment?” Runs inside any LLM.

    Try it

    Practice game for reporters Beta

  3. World Cup Money Tracker

    A live look at how much money is riding on the 2026 World Cup — Polymarket betting volume set against the 2022 World Cup and the biggest prediction-market bet ever made, the 2024 Trump–Harris election market. A number too big to picture, made graspable.

    Live data project In progress

Stuck in my head

The tools keep changing. The questions underneath them don’t:

When a new technology arrives, who shapes how it gets used — and who does it really serve?

Got a story, a tool or a problem worth solving?

I take on collaborations, speaking, workshops and tool-building — with newsrooms, classrooms and teams working at the edge of journalism and technology.

Allie Seligman

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