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New Research: Newsroom AI policies strong on principles, weak on practice
A synthesis of 30 research papers finds most newsroom AI guidelines prioritize values over operational specifics — and almost none address procurement.
UK media giants launch coalition to demand AI licensing standards
Five of Britain's largest news organizations just issued a warning: Your journalism is being used to train AI systems without your permission.
A columnist asked Gemini to write his column. The result was good, and that’s the problem
Neil Steinberg’s annual AI column experiment found Gemini 3.0 nailing his voice while casually inventing a scene that never happened.
Why multi-market newsrooms choose Dataminr for breaking news detection
An AI system that watches thousands of public feeds at once has become a key tool for editors trying to stay ahead of emergencies.
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She’s building an AI that replaces your news feed, your analyst, and maybe your morning routine
An inside look at Gnomi, the startup trying to turn chaos into clarity and headlines into real time intelligence
Microsoft report: current media authentication tools aren’t ready for the AI content flood
A new Microsoft study finds content credentialing standards exist but adoption is fragmented — and warns of “sociotechnical provenance attacks” designed to exploit user perception.
Inside Patch’s AI-era listening post: how Dataminr rewired its breaking news workflow
A distributed local news network swapped one reporter’s single police scanner for an AI system that spots breaking news across the country in real time.
Adobe Firefly’s Quick Cut turns raw footage into a first-cut video in seconds
A new AI-powered beta feature handles the blank-timeline problem for time-constrained creators — automatically assembling clips into a structured draft.
Videogame media takes another hit as Clickout fires human staff to pivot to AI editors
The marketing firm behind several gaming sites has laid off its human writers in favor of a skeleton crew managing AI-generated content.