A newspaper unionized because McClatchy put reporters’ names on AI content
McClatchy told reporters it would use their bylines on AI-generated stories whether they liked it or not. They unionized.
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What an agentic newsroom will look like
The rise of agentic AI in newsrooms might actually lead to better human judgment, sources, and storytelling.
UK and US financial regulators hold emergency meetings over Anthropic’s Claude Mythos
An unreleased Anthropic model that found thousands of vulnerabilities in major operating systems has triggered emergency briefings from London to Washington.
AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.
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.
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Five lessons from newsrooms that stopped talking about AI and started building with it
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.
AI is making the one-man newsroom a reality
For Ricky Sutton, AI makes solo investigative reporting faster, cheaper, and powerful enough to rival a much bigger newsroom.
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.
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.
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.