Hi, I’m Allie. I teach journalists and build small tools to make sense of the technologies reshaping how news gets made.

At ASU’s Walter Cronkite School, my students and I dig into audience, attention and the tech arriving faster than newsrooms can keep up with. I build with these tools myself, learning what AI makes possible, where it fails and who it overlooks.

Things I’ve made
and am making.

Interview Bot
Real-time LLM simulation

An interview lab that teaches active listening, synthesis and interpretation. Students practice real-time questioning under pressure with no interruptions; instructors get a full transcript of every decision, question and adjustment.

Take a seat
Celestial Standings
Spatial data encoding

Major League standings mapped across the sky instead of ranked in a list. Each team is represented by an orb sized by its record and run differential.

Read the sky
News21: AI and Product Team
Interactive product engineering

With a group of journalists and a computer scientist, we’re designing the site, building interactives and reshaping how readers move through “Unsettled,” this year’s News21 investigation.

Follow along
AIstrologers
Automated generative publishing

Four AI “astrologers,” 12 signs and one freshly-generated reading each morning, drawn from the actual sky and dressed up like a vintage newspaper. An experiment in automated publishing and AI personas.

Get your horoscope
Remember When…?
Human-in-the-loop illustration

An AI-drawn, human-written storybook that started with a big question: How do we foster children’s learning and creativity in the age of AI? In progress.
AI-Assisted Reporting
Agentic reporting workflow

Can an AI assistant carry an investigation through sourcing, interviews, research and the final draft? A fellow professor and I are finding out, keeping notes on what works and what doesn’t. In progress.
The Daily Disco Tech
AI-to-song news pipeline

A tiny newsroom that scores the day’s tech news: AI pulls headlines and drafts micro-songs, a human editor sharpens and fact-checks them.

Press play
Galley
Internal-consistency checker

An automated galley-proof reader that checks a draft against itself and nothing else. It flags only internal contradictions — dates, math, names — and leaves every call to the human. In beta.

Proof a draft