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Sep 9, 2026
Blog

14 must-read newsletters about AI for journalists

A Journalism UK guide lists 14 essential newsletters that help journalists cut through AI hype and stay informed about how artificial intelligence is reshaping newsrooms. Highlights include Ulrike Langer’s “News Machines,” which offers weekly case studies on AI tools, workflows and revenue experiments; Ole Reissmann’s European‑focused “THEFUTURE,” curating links and commentary on AI‑driven news sites, automation and verification; and Ezra Eeman’s “Wayfinder,” a strategy‑driven roundup for navigating the evolving media landscape.

MARCELA KUNOVA ·
News

OpenAI-WAN-IFRA initiative to futureproof Ukrainian media

The OpenAI‑WAN‑IFRA initiative launches a new masterclass and catalyst programmes aimed at future‑proofing Ukrainian media, offering newsroom teams practical training to integrate artificial‑intelligence tools, strengthen operational resilience, and spark innovative storytelling. Backed by OpenAI, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN) and the International Federation of the Periodical Press (IFRA), the effort provides hands‑on support, resources and mentorship to help Ukrainian journalists adopt AI responsibly, improve workflow efficiency, and diversify revenue models.

JACOB GRANGER ·
News

The Druckenmiller op-ed proves AI detection was never the point

The recent Wall Street Journal op‑ed written by billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller, who openly admitted using AI, sparked a credibility backlash that no detection tool could have prevented. While AI now produces roughly half of online articles, readers instantly judge a piece’s worth when they spot “AI tells” such as overused em‑dashes or formulaic transitions, and detectors like Pangram or GPTZero are unreliable and generate false positives.

PETE PACHAL ·
News

Footballco credits AI assistant Goal-e for 1bn World Cup page views

Footballco credits its in‑house AI assistant Goal‑e for a 42% surge in World Cup users and a 55% rise in page views, delivering over 1 billion visits across its brands and more than $12.6 million in affiliate revenue in early 2026. Goal‑e, trained on two decades of Goal content, translates stories, generates summaries, questions and illustrations, enabling rapid multi‑language coverage—exemplified by a Dutch article that was AI‑translated into Japanese and garnered 803,000 views.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
Newsletter

Want AI to cite your journalism? Try doing some journalism

Publishers have spent years reshaping journalism to satisfy Google’s algorithms, and now a new industry is urging them to do the same for AI, offering tips like clearer headings and explicit entities. While some advice—clear structure and proper attribution—remains sound, the author warns that letting perceived AI preferences dictate news values repeats the SEO mistake of producing formulaic, low‑value pieces.

PIET VAN NIEKERK ·
Sep 8, 2026
News

Seattle Times and Newsday join publisher AI lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft

The Seattle Times and Newsday have joined more than a dozen publishers in suing OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the firms of scraping their pay‑walled articles and using the content to train ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Bing’s AI without permission. Filed on Sept. 4 in New York federal court, the complaint highlights the newspapers’ multi‑million‑dollar investment in journalism and alleges unlawful data harvesting.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
News

Can a shared "language" for AI tools fix the newsroom's context problem?

Newsroom AI tools excel individually but lack a common framework to share context, forcing journalists to manually stitch together data from disparate systems. To address this “context problem,” the Associated Press and Reuters are spearheading a shared standard that enables AI applications to communicate across the entire news production chain—from newsgathering and verification to editing and publication—so that insights, metadata and annotations can flow seamlessly between tools.

MARCELA KUNOVA ·
Sep 7, 2026
Newsletter

Martin Schori discusses AI in journalism, newsroom innovation, the future of journalists, human-centred media and how AI can improve modern journalism

Martin Schori, a veteran Swedish journalist, former deputy publisher and Director of Editorial AI & Innovation at Aftonbladet, now co‑founder of Hint Media and author of *AI in the Newsroom*, argues that AI should enhance, not replace, human‑centred journalism. He warns publishers to focus on how AI can improve storytelling and audience relationships rather than merely speeding up production.

SIMON EDWARD SMITH ·
Sep 4, 2026
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Publishers remove articles after AI-concerns emerge over four tech writers’ identities

Press Gazette’s investigation uncovered that four prolific tech‑and‑finance contributors—Sadie Ann Williamson, Ralph Tkatchuk, Victor G Snyder and Daan Pepijn—could not be verified, prompting Hacker Noon and Information Age to pull their articles. Neither Deloitte nor Auckland’s Ponsonby Rugby Club could confirm Williamson’s claimed affiliations, Snyder’s LinkedIn profile vanished, and Tkatchuk’s photo resembled an unrelated IT technician.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
Newsletter

#43. Weekly AI For Newsroom Roundup

We need to produce a short teaser, neutral editorial style, describing topics, developments, themes, links, reports, tools, initiatives, findings. No personal names, no "you". No greetings. Max 50 words. Summarize substantive content: newsletter about AI for newsroom, update: running AI-powered apps locally with security focus, new version of free MCP

SERGEI YAKUPOV · AI FOR NEWSROOM
News

Google AI Mode Prices Differ From Search For Same Items

Google’s AI‑enhanced search mode is showing higher product prices than traditional search, a new Productrise study reveals. Analyzing over 2 million listings across 100,000 SERPs in the U.S. and U.K. from Aug. 9‑31, 2026, the research found that when the same item appears in both results, AI Mode lists it at an average of 21.6 % higher price, with 68.

Sep 3, 2026
News

Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times

The U.S. government, through a brief filed by the Trump administration, has thrown its weight behind OpenAI in the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit accusing the firm and its backer Microsoft of training ChatGPT on millions of newspaper articles without permission. The advisory brief argues that AI development is “extraordinarily” transformative, essential for national security, economic mobility and U.S.

GUARDIAN STAFF REPORTER ·
News

Local Media Consortium Starts Program To Help Publishers Master AI

The Local Media Consortium (LMC) has unveiled an AI Accelerator program aimed at helping local media companies adopt artificial‑intelligence strategies to boost operational efficiency, business performance and long‑term sustainability. Partnering with Stellis AI, the initiative will conduct an AI Readiness and Digital Technology Stack Assessment for participating publishers, identifying gaps and recommending tools to integrate AI into editorial, advertising and back‑office functions.

Sep 1, 2026
Blog

Publishers are fighting the wrong battle against AI

Publishers are wasting effort trying to block AI crawlers because sophisticated bots can evade any defenses, and even large firms like People Inc. can’t fully stop them. The real battle is what happens after a bot accesses content: AI companies now prioritize real‑time retrieval over costly training, using publishers’ material to answer user queries.

PETE PACHAL ·
Blog

We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well

NPR and fact‑checking firm NewsGuard tested how popular AI chatbots, search engines and AI‑generated search‑result summaries handled false narratives spread by China, Iran and Russia. Using 30 questions based on recent disinformation, the chatbots—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini—correctly debunked about three‑quarters of the false claims and rarely repeated them, outperforming traditional search results, which often presented unchallenged misinformation on the first page.

HUO JINGNAN ·
Aug 31, 2026
News

AI chatbots beat search engines at spotting foreign propaganda, NPR test finds

NPR and NewsGuard tested six AI chatbots and four search engines with 30 questions derived from false narratives promoted by Russia, China and Iran between December 2025 and July 2026. The chatbots debunked about three‑quarters of the propaganda claims, failing only 12 of 180 responses, while search engines missed 18 of 120 first‑page results, and AI‑generated search summaries performed worse.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
News

Are newspaper opinion sections embracing AI-written op-eds?

A recent investigation into U.S. newspaper opinion sections found that the Wall Street Journal’s open embrace of AI‑written op‑eds is an outlier. Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s AI‑drafted piece on Treasury bond policy sparked no apology from him or editorial page editor Paul Gigot, who argued that AI use is as ordinary as a calculator and need not be disclosed.

News

Data Reveals ChatGPT Ads Not Performing

Agencies testing OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Ads are reporting disappointing results, with low click‑through rates, no conversions and unreliable metrics. Choice OMG’s $415 test in Ontario and Alberta generated nearly 9,000 impressions but only a 0.6% CTR—about three‑times lower than its usual 2% on search ads—and cost roughly $7 per click, yet produced no sales.

News

Reuters reviews hundreds of images a day. How does it verifie them?

Reuters’ visual verification team sifts through hundreds of user‑generated photos and videos daily, publishing only about a dozen after rigorous checks. Journalists locate and interview the original shooters, analyze metadata, compare imagery with weather reports, satellite data, maps and other eyewitness material, and use AI‑detection tools—while acknowledging their limits.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
News

Google further buries search results under AI mode

Google has begun automatically expanding its AI‑generated search overviews for certain queries, pushing the traditional list of links farther down the results page. Instead of a truncated AI summary with a “Show more” button, users now see a full AI overview at the top, followed by an “Ask anything” prompt and then the standard links, which can increase scrolling.

JAY PETERS ·
News

LLM citation mastery: Tips from Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston

Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston warns that traditional SEO is no longer sufficient; publishers must master “Generative Engine Optimisation” (GEO) to understand how large language models (LLMs) find, cite, and surface their content. Following a three‑year licensing deal with OpenAI that places Axios articles in ChatGPT with attribution, Johnston stresses that the concise “Smart Brevity” style—short, clear, data‑rich copy—makes both human readers and LLMs more likely to use the material.

ALICE BROOKER ·
Aug 28, 2026
Newsletter

Time for Some Ground Rules for AI and Writing

The piece argues for clear, transparent guidelines on AI‑generated content in journalism and publishing, urging disclosure whenever a machine contributes substantively to a story. Citing recent controversies—such as a Harvard professor penalized for using AI to condense his own work and a Wall Street Journal op‑ed penned with AI—the author stresses that bans are impractical and First Amendment‑problematic, especially for routine reports, summaries, or research assistance that AI now handles efficiently.

RICHARD J. TOFEL ·
News

Laurels and Darts: Slippery slop.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page sparked a debate after billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller openly admitted using AI to write his op‑ed rebuking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond‑buyback plan, prompting criticism that the piece violated the paper’s own transparency standards and underscored the limits of AI‑generated argumentation; editorial page editor Paul Gigot defended the contribution while reaffirming a new internal rule barring AI drafts for staff writers but leaving outside contributors in a gray area, a stance that media scholars argue flattens the distinctive voice of opinion pieces.

Newsletter

#42. Weekly AI For Newsroom Roundup. Local First Setup

My vacation is not over yet, but still... These days, I had some time to clean up the dev folder on my laptop and finally implement my favorite local-first approach for the tools I built for myself. My desktop task manager; a Telegram assistant for task management, Google Meet management,

SERGEI YAKUPOV · AI FOR NEWSROOM
Blog

Announcing the Winners of the Agentic AI Investigative Challenge

Over 60 teams entered the inaugural Agentic AI Investigative Challenge, which tasked participants with mining Congressional lobbying data using Claude Code. After reviewing 200 Agent Skills, judges selected three winners that showcase distinct AI‑agent workflows for journalism. First‑place Emma Bingham and Ian Clester built a modular newsroom system that cleans data, stores it in a database, and runs cost‑controlled “sweep” and daily loops of reusable SQL queries to generate and vet leads before editorial review.

NICK HAGAR ·
News

Polymarket calls itself News 2.0. Its AI is feeding users fabrications.

A Tow Center for Digital Journalism study found that Polymarket’s AI‑generated “Market Context” timelines are riddled with hallucinations, fabricated articles and misattributed citations. Analyzing 152 markets with over $1 million at stake and 65,000 timeline entries, researchers discovered dozens of nonexistent Associated Press links, false reports—such as a fabricated 2028 presidential run by Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez—and misdirected URLs that disguise fringe sites (e.

Aug 27, 2026
News

Reuters opens 39 years of news archives to AI buyers on Snowflake

Reuters is offering access to its journalism archive dating back to 1987, in five languages, through Snowflake Marketplace under licensed terms, enabling enterprises to integrate the content into AI tools for event tracking, company and industry analysis, and market or geopolitical insights.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
News

Who's suing AI and who's signing latest: Editorial Perfil sues OpenAI, News Corp vs Brave

News publishers are simultaneously striking licensing deals with AI firms while filing lawsuits over unauthorised content scraping. Major agreements include the Financial Times and News Corp licensing material to OpenAI, News Corp’s $50 m‑a‑year deal with Meta, Microsoft’s pact with Australia’s Nine Entertainment, and Reach’s usage‑based deal for Amazon’s Nova AI.

CHARLOTTE TOBITT ·
Newsletter

Who gets to use AI to write?

The article examines the unsettled rules around AI‑assisted writing, contrasting how publications like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times treat AI‑generated text: the WSJ accepts AI help if the author’s original argument remains intact, while the FT flags any AI‑produced drafting as a breach of editorial policy.

FLORENT DAUDENS ·
Aug 26, 2026
Blog

Will newsletters survive the AI assault on e-mail?

Publishers know “Google Zero” as the moment search engines stop sending traffic: the AI answers, nobody clicks. The same play is now likely extending to e-mail, the last big channel publishers bet no algorithm could take away.

GREG PIECHOTA ·
News

USA Today Co. is reformatting content to attract more AI licensing deals

USA Today Co. is overhauling its website content to make it more machine‑readable and attract AI licensing deals, according to CEO Mike Reed. The publisher is testing formats such as markdown and modular guides, adding metadata, and monitoring which AI bots access its pages to improve discoverability in AI answer engines.

SARA GUAGLIONE ·
Aug 25, 2026
News

Thomson Reuters says it spent $40 million to build its own frontier AI model

Thomson Reuters has invested $40 million in talent and compute to develop “Thomson,” a proprietary large‑language model built on an open‑source foundation and fine‑tuned with its own legal, tax and Reuters data. The company claims the specialist model, trained on less than 10 % of its archives and shaped by hundreds of subject‑matter experts, matches the performance of leading frontier AI systems on a range of tasks, offering a cheaper alternative to the billion‑dollar efforts of major AI labs.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
News

Colombia is Preparing a Poor Copy of the EU's AI Act

Colombia’s Senate is debating Bill 025 of 2026, a draft AI regulation that mirrors the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act in its risk‑based structure, impact‑assessment duties, transparency requirements and oversight mechanisms. While the intent—to safeguard fundamental rights as AI permeates work, education, public services and security—is legitimate, critics argue the bill ignores Colombia’s limited institutional capacity, technical expertise and fiscal resources.

DANIEL ARIAS RIVERA ·
Blog

Building values-driven infrastructure as a newsroom model

The Reynolds Journalism Institute is launching Open Desk Network, a journalist‑run cooperative that offers free, shared technology and resources to independent reporters focused on accountability and investigative work. As newsroom staff and budgets shrink, freelancers often rely on social‑media platforms or for‑profit publishers that lack journalistic values, risking de‑platforming and loss of work.

Blog

I Tried the AI Model Built to Fix AI Writing

The author likens raw AI‑generated prose to a cover band that knows every song but repeats the same chord progression, leaving readers bored and frustrated as familiar patterns—“not X, but Y,” dangling sentences that merely claim importance—reappear across texts. Noting a perceived stall in large‑lab writing models, which seem to prioritize coding over prose, the writer feels sidelined like a delayed AP English assignment.

KATIE PARROTT ·
Video

Stop blaming the hallucinating chatbot. Blame yourself too

When a chatbot makes something up, we blame the chatbot. Fair enough — it made it up. Henk van Ess analyzed 522,607 questions that people typed into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini and Copilot, and the bot is not the only one to blame. It’s also you.

HENK VAN ESS ·
Aug 24, 2026
News

Semafor Exclusive: New York Times tests out AI-generated search summaries

The New York Times has begun quietly testing a generative‑AI tool that adds machine‑written summaries to its search results, hoping to revive a lagging internal search function and match the AI‑driven features now common on many sites. The experiment, rolled out to a limited audience, produces excerpts and links without editorial oversight, marking the paper’s first unmediated AI text.

MAX TANI ·
Opportunity

🇩🇪 FAQ about the AI ​​for Media Hackathon 2026

The AI for Media Hackathon 2026 – “Media Data Hack – turning editorial data into AI experiences” invites interdisciplinary teams of journalists, product managers, developers, UX designers, data scientists, researchers and students to build AI‑powered prototypes for newsroom tools, products or distribution over three days (Nov 23‑25, 2026) at Deutsche Telekom’s Innovation Center Munich.

BERND OSWALD ·
Podcast

Journalism in the Age of AI From Acceleration to Reimagination

The podcast features authors Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds discussing their forthcoming book *Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination*. They argue that AI’s greatest impact will not be simply automating reporters but forcing a fundamental rethink of journalism’s purpose. After decades of a “hamster‑wheel” of faster, cheaper content production across ever‑more platforms, AI promises unprecedented efficiency—yet doing more with less may undermine journalism’s core values.

JOANNE KUAI ·
News

The IAB is developing a framework to tackle AI advertising measurement

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is drafting a new measurement framework, slated for release on Nov. 12, to address how ads served to AI agents are attributed and credited. As bots increasingly receive ad impressions—often bypassing traditional human‑click signals—publishers, platforms, agencies and brands lack a reliable evidence trail to determine who should be paid when an AI reads content, compares options and makes a purchase on a user’s behalf.

SARA GUAGLIONE ·
Aug 21, 2026
News

🇫🇮 Alma News Media has joined the SPUR coalition

Alma News Media has joined the international SPUR (Standards for Publisher Usage Rights) coalition, which is drafting global technical standards and licensing frameworks to ensure fair, transparent use of journalistic content by AI platforms. The alliance, now comprising roughly 60 publishers and industry groups—including AP, BBC, Mediahuis and Bonnier News—was launched in early 2026 by five British news outlets to protect publishers’ control over their material and secure compensation for its use.

MINNA KEMPPAINEN ·
Newsletter

#41. Weekly AI For Newsroom Roundup

This is SociAl Pacino — an AI agent compiling the newsletter during August. Sergei will be back on August 31. Here’s what we had this week on AI For Newsroom . And please read the banner below. I'm looking for a new project for Sergei, so maybe there’s a match

SERGEI YAKUPOV · AI FOR NEWSROOM
Aug 20, 2026
Newsletter

Please don’t write for the machines

Journalist Piet van Niekerk warns against tailoring news to AI, arguing that while journalism must be structured so machines can extract and cite facts, the core purpose remains human readership. He recounts how a 2019 BBC Travel piece about Iceland’s role in the Apollo program resurfaced in AI‑generated answers, showing that clear, well‑attributed stories are easily parsed by algorithms even without being written for them.

PIET VAN NIEKERK ·
Newsletter

Stop blaming AI chatbots. You are part of the problem

Analyzing over half a million queries to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini and Copilot, Henk van Ess argues that users, not just chatbots, are responsible for many hallucinations. He identified eight common user mistakes—each stemming from the fact that the answer is often hidden within the question itself—causing the AI to simply copy and amplify the embedded claim.

HENK VAN ESS ·
News

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes

Google’s DeepMind team has released Backstory, an AI‑powered verification suite built on Gemini that lets fact‑checkers run provenance checks, reverse‑image searches, manipulation detection and context tracing in a single workflow. After uploading an image and posing a query, the tool automatically selects and executes relevant authentication services, then produces a cited report and a log of its steps.

Aug 19, 2026
News

NCTJ finds UK news employers now expect advanced AI skills from graduates

A recent NCTJ survey of 14 UK news organisations reveals that employers now expect journalism graduates to possess advanced AI competencies, including critical prompting, fact‑checking, bias detection, and ethical judgement. Recruiters stress the ability to verify AI‑generated content, recognize hallucinations, and know when human editorial control is essential.

THE COPILOT, ROMY ABU-FADEL ·
Blog

How to Audit Publisher Websites in 2026

In 2026 SEO audits for publishers must shift from pure ranking checks to comprehensive discoverability assessments that satisfy both humans and AI-driven bots. Harry Clarkson‑Bennett outlines four non‑negotiable pillars—Technical SEO, Content & On‑Page SEO, EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust), and Entity (brand) Consistency—each infused with AI readiness. Audits begin with business‑focused pre‑questions (goals, KPIs, revenue models, site scale, stakeholders, resources, competitors) to align recommendations with tangible value such as subscriptions or ad revenue.

HARRY CLARKSON-BENNETT ·
Podcast

It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith

In a Decoder podcast, Nilay Patel talks with Ben Smith, co‑founder and editor‑in‑chief of Semafor, about navigating ethics and business in today’s fragmented media landscape. Smith explains that, after leading BuzzFeed News during its traffic boom, he helped launch Semafor in 2022 with a goal of reaching 200 million educated readers, but soon shifted to an “anti‑scale” model that eschews massive traffic in favor of high‑quality journalism paired with a lucrative convening business—large events that bring the subjects they cover onto the stage.

NILAY PATEL ·

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