Newman warns AI’s ‘liquid content’ remixing poses serious challenge to news media
Reuters Institute researcher Nic Newman says chatbots like Claude can repackage information into any format audiences want, threatening core publisher services.
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Publishers ask court to sanction OpenAI in escalating copyright fight
The Times and others say OpenAI withheld evidence in a copyright fight over ChatGPT training and output logs.
The future of journalism is personal: How The Journal is building AI for readers, not robots
As AI transforms the way news is created and consumed, The Wall Street Journal is reimagining storytelling around trust, personalization, and audience experience.
The end of 10 blue links is not the end of Google
Google’s AI search push may kill the old web traffic model, but it shows how firmly the company still controls the future of information.
Journalists are opening up about AI, but one mistake shows how fragile that progress is
As prominent journalists go public with their AI workflows, a plagiarism scandal at The New York Times reveals how quickly momentum can reverse
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AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.
New York Times cuts ties with freelancer over AI-assisted book review
Author-journalist Alex Preston admitted to using an AI tool that drew on a Guardian review without attribution.
Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than their professors
A Northeastern ethics seminar put Claude in students' hands and they pushed back harder than the professor expected.
Breaking news is up 103% on Google as AI Overviews gut everything else
AI Overviews have cut publisher search traffic nearly in half, but breaking news is way up.
Claude rewards niche journalism in AI answers, study finds
A Muck Rack analysis of Claude’s citations finds that smaller and niche outlets often surface more than major publishers.