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.
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I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism
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News Wired ·How Will AI Affect the Global Workforce?
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News commentary Fast Company ·Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify
News Nieman Lab ·Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations
News Nieman Lab ·We found stuff AI is pretty good at
News commentary The Verge ·TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor
News Media | The Guardian ·The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
News The Register ·Former Googlers’ AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·The publishers’ guide to being gaslit by tech platforms (the AI edition)
News commentary Digiday ·Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
News The Verge ·This tech CEO wants to save local news from the AI onslaught
News Local News Initiative ·US news giants grow revenue despite AI-driven turmoil
News Press Gazette ·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