What critics get wrong about Cleveland.com’s AI rewrite experiment
The Cleveland Plain Dealer isn’t “replacing reporters with AI” so much as separating reporting from writing. That still raises hard questions.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer isn’t “replacing reporters with AI” so much as separating reporting from writing. That still raises hard questions.
An inside look at Gnomi, the startup trying to turn chaos into clarity and headlines into real time intelligence

Mainstream AI attention is turning “more content” into a newsroom coping strategy. Here’s the move that actually matters.
Poynter’s Alex Mahadevan explains how newsrooms can use AI without losing the fundamentals of verification, context, and accountability.

AI is making scams and bad info routine. Journalists can't chase every lie, but they can teach people how to verify.
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Patterns are the new keywords. Both journalists and PR can earn trust via focused coverage—with receipts.
Lawsuits set public rules. Contracts set private ones. Attorney Jason Henderson explores how leverage, timing, and context decide the path.

OpenAI’s ad push could further drain publisher revenue—or finally make the value exchange measurable enough to charge for.
A tech-forward journalism professor unpacks how AI is changing how he teaches reporting and what it means for the entry-level jobs that are increasingly endangered.

Agents promise acceleration in knowledge work. Media can unlock it only with governance: provenance, policy, and traceable decisions.
