Working with a diverse Editorial Board

By Raphael Ranola Opinions Editor

A typical Editorial Board discussion generally goes the way you’d expect it to. All of the editors sit at a table and brainstorm some topics that we could take a stance on, which generally adhere to the theme of that week’s edition of The DI. While this discussion happens, the opinions editor takes detailed notes.

They write down everything noteworthy that each person says to use as “evidence” for the editorial on a Google Doc and, once this Doc has been completely filled out, try to make sense of everything that was written. The writing process involves merging topics and organizing each and every thought and concept in a way that is coherent and adequately reflects what was said in the discussion.

We live in a world where you could give ChatGPT a list of subjective statements and ask it to come up with a coherent argument that flows in a way that is somewhat readable. Personally, once artificial intelligence starts writing opinions columns, I would think that is a cause for concern.

Journalistic etiquette can sometimes come across as robotic. Although the intention of journalism