Aimee Rinehart
- Senior product manager AI strategy, The Associated Press
- Former deputy director New York Bureau, First Draft
Biography
Aimee Rinehart is the senior product manager AI strategy for The Associated Press. Before joining AP, she was the deputy director of First Draft’s New York bureau helping journalists and newsrooms to identify, verify and report on mis- and disinformation through the 2018 and 2020 U.S. election cycles.
Rinehart is in the 2024 cohort of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY as the Tow-Knight Fellow in AI Studies. She co-led the Knight Center for the Americas massive open online course on how newsrooms can use AI. She served on the steering committee for Partnership on AI’s AI Procurement and Use Guidebook for Newsrooms, and was a council member advising the direction of the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology at the University of Florida. Rinehart started working online in 1996 and was a digital originator at The New York Times and returned to print briefly as an editor at the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels.