Mirage’s $50,000 AI news channel runs 24/7 without journalists
Mirage's one-day AI News Network drew 50,000 viewers on X, cost about $50,000 and employed no journalists at any point.
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Inside the AI newsroom that beat WIRED to the punch
One-man AI newsrooms like RuntimeWire are publishing scoops in minutes for about $100 a day, raising real questions for publishers.
Scripps cuts 12% of staff in bid to become AI-powered news company
E.W. Scripps eliminated 432 positions this year as CEO Adam Symson pushes automation and centralization across its local TV stations.
Runtime Wire runs an AI newsroom with one human and 1,627 published stories
Runtime Wire's founder Ryan Merket runs an AI newsroom that scanned 71,796 stories and published just 2.3 percent of them.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, pitching frontier work at half the price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, claiming top scores on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while keeping the same price as its predecessor.
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Reuters editor-in-chief says AI should push young reporters back into the field
Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni says AI can take over entry-level newsroom tasks so young reporters focus on reporting.
beehiiv expands beyond newsletters With AI and ad tools
beehiiv rolled out Community, an AI operator called Copilot, programmatic newsletter ads and a new visual editor at its Summer Release Event.
The 2026 journalism layoff wave is already worse than last year — and it’s only March
From the Washington Post to Nexstar to the New York Daily News, newsrooms are cutting at a pace that suggests a structural shift, not a cyclical correction.
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.
Mediahuis builds AI agent pipeline for routine news reporting
The European publisher is testing interconnected AI tools to automate first-line news and free up human reporters.