Patrick Swanson is a journalist and technologist with more than ten years of newsroom leadership experience.

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He is the co-founder of Verso, a consulting lab that helps news organizations, business leaders and non-profits step into the AI age. Patrick lives in San Francisco.

 

Previously, Patrick was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University, where he studied and designed generative AI tools and strategy for journalism.

 

From 2013 to 2023, Patrick was based in Vienna and worked for 'Zeit im Bild', the most trusted and important news brand in Austria. In this role, he founded and led the social media team at Austria's largest newsroom.