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Francesco Marconi

Co-founder & CEO at AppliedXL

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Overview

Francesco Marconi is co-founder and CEO at AppliedXL [1][3]. Marconi spent the 2010s in newsroom research and automation roles, serving as co-lead of AI and news automation at the Associated Press from 2011 to 2018 [7] and as R&D Chief at The Wall Street Journal from 2018 to 2020 [4]. During these roles, Marconi observed that machine intelligence could identify newsworthy signals already present in public records, such as FDA filings or clinical trial registries, before journalists discovered them [2]. Marconi has held research affiliations at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society [9] and MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines [6], and taught as an adjunct at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism [5]. Marconi holds a master's degree in business from the University of Missouri-Columbia [11].

Profile introduction
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I spent my twenties inside the two American newsrooms most associated with breaking news, the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal, and came away convinced that breaking news was the wrong unit of analysis. As R&D Chief at the Journal and co-lead of news automation at the AP, I ran some of the earliest production deployments of machine intelligence in journalism, and watched the same pattern repeat. The signal was already in the public record, in an FDA filing or a clinical trial registry, long before any reporter wrote it up. The newsroom wasn't the first reader. It was a late one.

Career history

  1. Co-founder & CEOMar 2020 to presentAppliedXL
  2. R&D ChiefMar 2018 to Feb 2020The Wall Street Journal
  3. Teaching Adjunct, Business of JournalismAug 2016 to Dec 2019Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
  4. Research Affiliate, Laboratory for Social MachinesMay 2017 to Apr 2019MIT Media Lab
  5. Co-lead, AI & News AutomationJul 2011 to Mar 2018The Associated Press
  6. Analyst, G77 Early Warning SystemsJun 2009 to Aug 2010United Nations

Education

  1. Berkman Center for Internet & Society Research Fellow2014 - 2015Harvard University
  2. Chazen Institute Research Scholar2013 - 2014Columbia Business School
  3. Masters, Business2010 - 2012University of Missouri-Columbia

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