What an agentic newsroom will look like
The rise of agentic AI in newsrooms might actually lead to better human judgment, sources, and storytelling.

The rise of agentic AI in newsrooms might actually lead to better human judgment, sources, and storytelling.

An unreleased Anthropic model that found thousands of vulnerabilities in major operating systems has triggered emergency briefings from London to Washington.

Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.

A Northeastern ethics seminar put Claude in students' hands and they pushed back harder than the professor expected.

Poynter spent a day at SXSW with journalists actually using AI — and the through-line is ruthlessly practical: start with a pain point, draw the line, name where the human sits.

For Ricky Sutton, AI makes solo investigative reporting faster, cheaper, and powerful enough to rival a much bigger newsroom.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer isn’t “replacing reporters with AI” so much as separating reporting from writing. That still raises hard questions.

A synthesis of 30 research papers finds most newsroom AI guidelines prioritize values over operational specifics — and almost none address procurement.

Neil Steinberg’s annual AI column experiment found Gemini 3.0 nailing his voice while casually inventing a scene that never happened.

A Cleveland newsroom's decision to have AI write story drafts while reporters focus solely on gathering information has reignited the debate over AI's role in journalism.
