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September 2, 2026
Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms
On Wednesday, the Trump administration threw its support behind OpenAI, backing the AI giant in its ongoing litigation with The New York Times. The Department of Justice voiced its support through ...
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August 19, 2026
Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media. For the six-person team at Indi...
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August 12, 2026
Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature
On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people. In the days that followed, AI-generated images of the wreckage circulated widely and fake...
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August 11, 2026
The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age
On Monday, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) dropped new proposed revisions to its code of ethics — the first revision to one of the most-cited media ethics standards in the country sin...
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August 3, 2026
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
A translation of a mass shooter’s cryptic journal in the days after an attack. A public records review that revealed failures to install flood warning systems in Central Texas. An exposé of America...
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July 30, 2026
AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds
It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources — ...
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July 15, 2026
Business Insider’s big bet against aggregation
“It’s not: Some people do features, some people do spot stories. You’re commanding your beat. You’re doing everything,” said Jamie Heller, Business Insider’s editor-in-chief. It’s a Tuesday morning...
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July 8, 2026
A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools
Last year, MIT’s Media Lab came out with a buzzy study on a phenomenon that’s been coined “cognitive debt.” In short, the researchers found that when ChatGPT users offloaded essay writing tasks to ...
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June 30, 2026
Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026
“Welcome to Vilnius, the city where we face cognitive warfare for real,” Robertas Kaunas, Lithuania’s minister of national defense, said in his opening remarks at this year’s GlobalFact. On June 17...
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June 25, 2026
Beehiiv’s new Cloudflare partnership gives indie journalists a new level of control over AI crawlers
Over the past year, major news publishers have taken aggressive anti-scraping measures to curb the rise of AI crawlers. So far, most of these backend interventions have been out of reach for indepe...
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June 10, 2026
The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool
Josh Moyer remembers the exact moment he decided he needed to unionize. Moyer is a senior reporter for the Centre Daily Times, a newspaper in State College, PA, and for months he had been concerned...
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