Hello, this is Sergei.
This week marks six months since I launched AI For Newsroom. Here’s where things stand now: 248 initiatives across 211 newsrooms in 51 countries. Alongside that, 72 AI policies and guidelines, plus a large collection of resources — reports, research, analysis, tools — almost 200 items in total. And, of course, a curated daily feed with the most interesting, valuable, and actually useful content about AI in newsrooms.
What’s next? I have plans to turn this feed into something more than just a stream of links. In February, I’m finishing the MVP of a full scale CMS that uses AI to assist and improve newsroom workflows. The first real installation will live inside AI For Newsroom. More on that very soon.
And now — let’s move on to what happened this week.
New on AI For Newsroom this week
Stories, guides, initiatives, and signals we surfaced in this issue.
Digital Democracy AI
Newsweek AI Chat
People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds
Microsoft Exposes AI Bot Traffic On Websites
Beyond the hype: Three cultural traps blocking AI adoption in Latin American newsrooms
(🔐) Bold Call: AI will rewrite publishers’ websites in 2026
Claude’s Constitution
AI & the Press: Promise and Perils of AI in the Newsroom
Google IP boss: We shouldn’t pay for AI training on ‘freely available’ content
Using AI to find hidden data sources
AI Agents are Rewriting the Web’s Rules of Engagement. Here’s a Way to Fix it
Why India’s plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global
Chronicles
California Reporting Project
AIWhisperer
On Controlled Change: Generative AI's Impact on Professional Authority in Journalism
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