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
The Latest
AP launches verification dashboard for publishers to meet ‘demand for authenticity’
News Press Gazette ·Major publishers back universal AI licensing technology
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News The Verge ·A Critical Look at Trump's AI Executive Order
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
News commentary Techdirt ·Politico’s Union Journalists Win Key Ruling In Battle Against Lazy, Undercooked AI
News commentary Techdirt ·Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
News semafor.com ·The Post’s A.I. ‘Disaster’
News Status ·'I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off.' Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry.
News commentary Blood in the Machine ·Trump signs AI executive order pushing to ban state laws
News The Verge ·Trump Signs Executive Order To Combat State AI Regulation
News Tech Policy Press ·Time Magazine Deploys AI 'Ask Me Anything' Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed
News commentary Futurism ·AI supercharges the challenges of discerning truth from fiction
News Nieman Lab ·Journalism job postings will reflect our dystopia
News Nieman Lab ·Loyalty, not scale, is key
News Nieman Lab ·Automation arrives in newsrooms
News Nieman Lab ·We won’t get fooled again (we hope)
News Nieman Lab ·A myth-busting quiz to get you set for 2026
News Nieman Lab ·Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion
News The Register ·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