Brian Ballou

Brian Ballou

About the Author:

Brian Ballou is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.S., Journalism, 1998) and a career newspaper reporter who spent more than two decades in major metropolitan newsrooms before turning to technology and business journalism. He worked as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Newsday's Manhattan bureau, the Detroit Free Press, the Boston Herald, and the Boston Globe, where he covered breaking news from 2006 to 2013. Ballou was part of the Boston Globe staff that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. He later served as Director of Media Relations for Boston Public Schools and as a South Florida Sun Sentinel reporter before moving into public-sector communications, where he currently serves as Speechwriter & Communications Specialist with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. Since September 2023, Ballou has been a contributing writer for Techstrong Group, where he covers technology and business topics for properties including Techstrong.ai and DigitalCxO, applying his investigative newsroom background to enterprise technology and corporate leadership coverage.

Articles by Brian Ballou

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AI-Generated Content and the Digital Replications Report

August 14, 2024

On July 31, 2024, the Office published its “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1, Digital Replications” report that addresses the need for additional federal legislation to protect individuals against unauthorized AI-generated digital replicas, including text, images, video, and audio. 

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Women in AI

July 30, 2024

The gender job gap needs rectifying so that women can fully participate in the AI workforce, including in powerful leadership roles in the design and development of AI.

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