The Top Journalists Covering Artificial Intelligence In 2026

Last Updated: 8th April 2026

This one is for Marketing and Comms leads at AI companies and builds on the list we published last year.

Our latest analysis of top journalists writing about AI topics right now. Some have an official beat dedicated to AI, others cover it as part of their tech-focused coverage. Either way, as AI is now the new Digital Transformation, it touches every company now in some way, and subsequently means the top journalists hail from a number of different backgrounds. Unlike in other lists, we're also seeing the rise of new media here too, with substackers and new media founders among the most prolific.

Full list of 19 here below and the link to follow their author profiles:

Belle Lin — Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Covers technology business news with a focus on enterprise AI strategy, AI agents, and investments in AI-enabled platforms. She tracks partnerships between tech vendors (OpenAI, Databricks, Workday with Microsoft), corporate AI adoption, VC funding for AI-enabled roll-ups, and the operational implications of AI — including data governance, ROI debates, and integration with existing data infrastructure. Her stories emphasise how large incumbents and investors are positioning AI to penetrate enterprise workflows, data infrastructure, and service delivery. Twitter: @bellelin_

Will Knight — Senior Writer, WIRED

Covers a broad spectrum of AI with a strong focus on the intersection of AI with military applications, ethics, and policy, plus a recurring interest in the societal and geopolitical implications of AI. He frequently analyses how startups are deploying advanced AI for high-stakes and potentially autonomous operations, contextualising these within regulatory debates, governance frameworks, and international competition between the US and China. Knight also delves into AI's impact on labour, cybersecurity, and the ethics of AI deployment, often weaving in expert opinions from academia and think tanks. Twitter: @willknight

Alex Wilkins — News Reporter, New Scientist

Covers science, technology, and space with a focus on emerging research, breakthroughs, and their implications. His recent stories span brain-computer interfaces and biological data centres, AI-assisted mathematical proofs, space phenomena, and quantum computing topics, with attention to regulatory, practical, and ethical considerations. He frequently distils complex research into accessible explanations, making him a key journalist for companies with research-led AI stories. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wilkinsalexander

Jason Nelson — Tech Reporter, Decrypt

Covers the AI and crypto tech beat, focusing on how AI research, policy, and industry developments intersect with finance, policy, and daily life. His stories blend analysis of cutting-edge AI capabilities, governance and ethics debates, platform wars, and crypto markets, often highlighting regulatory, security, and societal implications. A key journalist for companies operating at the intersection of AI and Web3. Twitter: @jasonnelson

Madhumita Murgia — Artificial Intelligence Editor, Financial Times

The FT's first dedicated AI Editor and one of the most influential AI journalists globally. Her reporting covers AI's societal impact, EU AI Act implementation, and enterprise AI adoption — and she has broken multiple major stories about AI's effect on labour markets and public services. Author of Code Dependent: How AI Is Rewiring the World (2024). Twitter: @madhumita29

Radhika Rajkumar — Editor, ZDNet

Covers enterprise AI tools, cloud computing, and practical business technology for ZDNet's decision-maker audience. Her coverage focuses on hands-on evaluation of AI products, making her influential among IT buyers and enterprise procurement teams weighing AI adoption. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/radhika-rajkumar-91336312a

Joe McKendrick — Senior Contributor, Forbes

Covers enterprise AI and tech-market dynamics, with a focus on how AI-native software, agent technology, pricing models, governance, and workforce implications reshape SMBs and large organisations. His stories analyse industry research from Deloitte, MIT, Genpact, and West Monroe, offering practical implications for CIOs, developers, and executives navigating AI governance, ROI, skill shifts, and the evolving software landscape. Twitter: @joemckendrick

Isabelle Bousquette — Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Covers the AI economy and its impact on business leadership, focusing on how AI technologies are reshaping work, organisational design, and advisory services. Her recent stories explore enterprise AI adoption — including agents, workflow integration, and cost considerations — alongside evolving workforce structures driven by AI, such as flatter teams, skill-based organisations, and HR-tech collaboration. She also covers the consulting industry's experience with AI deployments, including limitations, ROI challenges, and future potential. Twitter: @IsabelleBiscuit

Tim Smith — Reporter, Sifted

Covers European AI and tech startups for Sifted, the FT-backed publication focused on European innovation. His beat spans funding rounds, product launches, and the operational challenges facing AI companies scaling across European markets — making him a key journalist for companies targeting the European startup and VC ecosystem. Twitter: @timmpsmith

Supantha Mukherjee — European Technology & Telecoms Correspondent, Reuters

Leads Reuters' European Technology and Telecoms coverage, with a special focus on emerging technologies such as AI and 5G. Based in Stockholm, he has covered technology for Reuters since 2006, spanning financial sector to technology beats over an 18-year career. His Reuters wire stories are picked up globally, making him a high-leverage journalist for companies navigating the European regulatory and enterprise landscape.

Ben Sherry — Staff Reporter, Inc.

Covers advanced AI and tech industry dynamics, with a focus on AI infrastructure, venture activity, and corporate AI strategy. He highlights demand-driven narratives — infrastructure tightness, multi-year inference deals — alongside funding moves, acquisitions, and practical applications such as vibe coding and enterprise AI tools. His stories blend market signals across large players (CoreWeave, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft) and startups, spotlighting how policy, partnerships, and product innovations shape AI deployment, governance, and economics. Twitter: @BenLucasSherry

Scott Stein — Editor at Large, CNET

Covers ambitious intersections of technology, AI, and culture, focusing on immersive art, gaming, wearables, AR/VR, and how emerging tech shapes perception, agency, and daily life. His recent pieces profile AI-enabled art installations, SXSW experiences, AI in gaming and VR/AR, wearables and smart glasses, and Apple and Nintendo hardware ecosystems. He blends hands-on experiences with ethical questions about memory, ownership, privacy, and design trade-offs. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/scott-stein-990b393

Sally Ward-Foxton — Author, EE Times

Covers a broad spectrum of AI hardware startups and R&D, focusing on chip design innovations, heterogeneous compute, open-source and ecosystem strategies, and the intersection of AI with silicon, software tooling, and governance. Her stories emphasise new architectures — chiplets, photonic/optical compute, sub-threshold designs, dataflow — alongside open hardware/IP models, industrial and edge deployments, and the evolving business models around AI chips, accelerators, and autonomous systems. Twitter: @sallywf

Victor Dey — Analyst & Writer, Fast Company

Covers technology and AI with a focus on practical innovations, enterprise adoption, and the economic and strategic implications. Recent stories explore quantum computing via optical and photonic approaches, real-time design acceleration through AI tools, AI's impact on education, agentic AI and enterprise data work, and the broader AI ecosystem including automation at Pinterest, Zoom, and Snowflake. Overall emphasis on how advanced tech translates to cost, energy, scalability, and real-world applications across industries. Twitter: @iamVictorDey

Stephanie Palazzolo — Reporter, The Information

Covers AI industry dynamics, focusing on OpenAI and its competitors, AI tooling and coding assistants, funding and valuations of AI startups, chip and cloud infrastructure, and strategic moves shaping the market. Her stories often assess competitive threats (Google, Nvidia), product-roadmap developments, governance and leadership statements, and the financial implications of AI innovation. She highlights industry scepticism, regulatory/policy angles, and how AI advancements influence enterprise adoption, developer ecosystems, and monetisation strategies. Twitter: @steph_palazzolo

Tom Allen — Editor, The AI Journal

Edits The AI Journal, a publication dedicated to enterprise AI adoption and industry news. His coverage spans AI implementation case studies, vendor landscape analysis, and practical stories about AI in production — making him the key journalist for enterprise AI companies seeking specialist, business-focused coverage. Twitter: @tom_r_allen

Casey Newton — Founder & Editor, Platformer

Writes a tech-ethics focused column analysing AI, platform design, and tech policy, often blending insider industry critique with personal disclosures about relationships to industry figures. His work covers AI governance, antitrust and legislation, and the societal impact of social media and AI tooling. He uses first-person reportage, critical scepticism of large tech companies, and explorations of regulatory and ethical tensions — with recurring notes about his relationships to Anthropic and other AI labs. Twitter: @CaseyNewton

Reed Albergotti — Tech Editor, Semafor

Focuses on AI, fintech, and tech policy, with deep dives into frontier AI companies (Anthropic, OpenAI, and their Pentagon dynamics), corporate battles, and hardware/cloud innovations including data centres and AI infrastructure. His recurring "Reed's View" segments offer opinions on industry strategy, governance, and national security implications of AI deployment. He covers Wall Street reactions to AI, mergers and alliances, and the broader techno-economic narrative of AI infrastructure and policy friction shaping the sector.

Dina Bass — Reporter, Bloomberg News

Writes about major tech industry moves involving AI and enterprise computing, covering product launches (Cisco's Unified Edge for AI across retail, healthcare, and manufacturing), large-scale AI/cloud procurement deals, and potential M&A activity in AI chips. Her coverage centres on AI empowerment for enterprises, edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and chip ecosystem dynamics — with particular depth on Microsoft's AI strategy and the enterprise AI market. Twitter: @dinabass

Our analysis is conducted using our own proprietary journalist semantic search - if you'd like to get a list of recommendations tailored to your company specifically, get in touch with one of our team or book a demo to find out more.