Artificial intelligence
On top of a failing business model, newsrooms must navigate the powerful — and not fully reliable — new capabilities of artificial intelligence and the deployment of large language models.
State of the business model | Copyright and intellectual property
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News TechCrunch ·Google rolls out safeguards for more of its AI products ahead of the US presidential election
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News WIRED ·AI translation is a boon for the Vineyard’s newspapers, but there are limitations as well
News Media Nation ·Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI
News WIRED ·AI Companies Have Pitched US Political Campaigns. The Campaigns Are Wary.
News NYT - Media ·'AI reporters' are covering the events of the day in Northwest Arkansas
News Nieman Lab ·New funding from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation will support the expansion of ONA’s AI in Journalism Initiative
News Online News Association ·Sharing Material Used To Be The Norm For Newspapers, And Should Be For LLMs
News commentary Techdirt ·ONA announces new support from Joyce Foundation, piloting in-depth AI training for local newsrooms
News Online News Association ·Big tech algorithms: The new gatekeepers
News RJI ·in brief
The web hurt the news business. Will AI hurt it more?
Who owns the future?
Some 30 years after the arrival of the first modern web browser — an initial, small crack in the economic foundation of the news business — the widespread availability of artificial intelligence services make urgent the question once again. The press of a different future, the question of ownership, is being felt keenly in any information business: data, news, entertainment, art. AI will create wealth, people are betting, but how will that wealth be distributed?
July 9, 2025
resources
The Journalist’s Resource: AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and copyright law
Congressional Research Service: The macroeconomic effects of artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Section 230 immunity and generative artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and data privacy: a primer
Congressional Research Service: How generative artificial intelligence is changing work