AUSTIN, TEXAS, AND SAN FRANCISCO – Distro Media, developer of an AI-native publishing and distribution platform, announced that it will host a free public webinar on Tuesday, Nov. 17, together with DeAI News and Seed Protocol.
The online session, "How Distro Media Works: A Walkthrough With DeAI News," starts at 10:30 a.m. Pacific (12:30 p.m. Central, 1:30 p.m. Eastern). It is a technical walkthrough, not a sales demo, and it will be recorded.
Presenters will follow DeAI News – the first publication built on Distro – through a real day of publishing, from a story drafted in an AI chat to a permanent, signed copy on the blockchain.
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How Distro Media Works: A Walkthrough With DeAI News
Follow the first publication on Distro through a real day of publishing, from AI draft to permanent archive.
When
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2026
Time
10:30 a.m. PT · 12:30 p.m. CT · 1:30 p.m. ET
Where
Online via Zoom · Free · Recorded
Write Draft and file stories from AI tools.
Publish Distro serves each story on the web, by RSS and to AI readers.
Preserve PermaPress, built on Seed Protocol, keeps a permanent signed copy on Arweave and Ethereum.
Read and pay Readers and their agents pay per story, straight from their wallet to the publisher's.
With January Jones, co-founder of DeAI News · Brad Keoun, founder of Distro Media · Keith Axline, builder of Seed Protocol and PermaPress
Questions before the event: [email protected] · During the talk: use the Q&A
On the agenda
DeAI News co-founder January Jones, Distro founder Bradley Keoun and Keith Axline, builder of Seed Protocol and PermaPress, plan to show three things:
MCP servers on both sides of the story. Distro Publisher lets reporters file and edit from Claude, ChatGPT or any other AI client. Distro Reader lets the public find and read those stories from inside the same tools.
x402 payments for premium stories and tips. The approach grew out of Distro's agentic newsstand pilot in March, which showed single-article sales could work without card fees eating the price.
A permanent archive. DeAI News articles published on Distro go automatically to PermaPress, which keeps a signed copy on Arweave and Ethereum. Distro sees that as a more durable record than ordinary web hosting.
Distro is meant as the basic engineering design for an end-to-end content distribution system in the AI era. Its connectors are easy for anyone to install, and because the platform is built on open-source standards, it works with any AI platform or agent.
Distro uses blockchain tech for payments and decentralized file storage. The company also plans to integrate eventually with Stripe and other agentic payment systems that connect to the traditional financial system.
The platform is designed for journalism pros and newsroom teams, independent creators and the projects and companies that publish their own news.
The webinar is offered in the spirit of Distro's build-in-the-open mantra, as a way to share the team's work with fellow builders and publishers.
Attendees can send questions through the Q&A during the talk.
About Distro
Distro Media is based in Austin and San Francisco. It was founded in 2024 by Keoun, a former CoinDesk, Bloomberg News and Chicago Tribune journalist. Its flagship web app, DistroVerse, lets anyone create a "newslode" (think: a digital magazine, newspaper or video album) and start publishing in minutes.
Jones joined in early 2026, and the team has since built out Distro and expanded DeAI News into a podcast, DeAI News Journal.
Background reading from the Distro Newslode:
Introducing DistroVerse: Taking the pain out of content management
Distro news platform lets readers buy single articles via AI chatbots
Distro registered as first AI-native news publishing platform
Distro editorial agent uses decentralized AI for savings, reliability
DistroCast Ep. 2: Rewiring media monetization with AI, micropayments
DeAI News Journal, the video podcast January Jones and Brad Keoun host on decentralized AI
Corporate site and waitlist: distro.media. Connect your AI to Distro: distro.media/connect.
For more information or questions, email [email protected].
See you on the 17th. Add it to your calendar or join on Zoom at start time.