Local Media Consortium launches AI accelerator to assess publisher readiness
The program will examine participating local media organizations’ technology and identify where AI could be useful.
Newspaper opinion editors push back on AI-written op-eds after WSJ defense
Nieman Lab contacted 24 U.S. newspapers; none of the editors who responded said they would accept AI-written op-eds.
AI chatbots beat search engines at spotting foreign propaganda, NPR test finds
NPR and NewsGuard posed 30 propaganda-based questions to six chatbots and four search engines, and the chatbots handled them better.
Reuters reviews hundreds of images a day. How does it verify them?
Reuters details how its visual verification team confirms user-shot photos and video, publishing roughly a dozen of hundreds reviewed each day.
Druckenmiller says he used AI to write WSJ op-ed criticizing Bessent
Stanley Druckenmiller told NOTUS he used AI to write his Wall Street Journal op-ed, and the paper’s editorial page editor defended him.
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Axios publisher says SEO is ‘not the answer anymore’ as AI search grows
Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston says publishers must measure where they appear in AI answers before negotiating any licensing deal.
Who owns your expertise in the age of AI?
AI can absorb an expert’s work, reproduce their ideas, and generate answers based on their knowledge. Onix aims to help experts take back agency in that process.
Reuters opens 39 years of news archives to AI buyers on Snowflake
Reuters is selling access to its journalism archive dating to 1987 in five languages through Snowflake Marketplace under licensed terms.
IAB drafts AI advertising measurement framework as agents replace human clicks
The trade group plans to publish the framework Nov. 12 as publishers push for credit when AI systems help shape a purchase.
Thomson Reuters says it spent $40 million to build its own frontier AI model
The company started with an open-source foundation, then trained Thomson on proprietary legal, tax and Reuters content.