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April 9, 2026
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica’s...
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April 7, 2026
Federal appeals court supports injunction against ICE in L.A. Press Club lawsuit
In September 2025, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) limit its use of force against journalists, observers, and peaceful prote...
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March 26, 2026
Meta’s Oversight Board warns that “Community Notes” aren’t a proper substitute for fact-checking globally
On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled that “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for its fact-check...
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March 24, 2026
ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections
On March 20, members of the ProPublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the U.S., overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike. Out of the roughly 150 journalists, copyeditors, ...
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March 18, 2026
“We’re not going to do a chatbot anytime soon”: Notes on the RISJ’s AI and the Future of News symposium
On March 17, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) gathered reporters, academics, and technologists at the University of Oxford for a one-day symposium on AI and the future of ne...
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March 10, 2026
As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beat
Data centers have long underpinned the internet as we know it, but the generative AI boom has ushered in a new era of rapid, largely unchecked development. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta alone...
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March 4, 2026
Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows
Organic search traffic to some of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped by 58% since 2024, according to a new analysis from the SEO and GEO marketing firm Growtika. The report pull...
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March 4, 2026
AI-powered search is fueling a wave of Epstein Files transparency projects
The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) requires that the millions of documents collected by the Department of Justice (DOJ) about Jeffrey Epstein be shared with the public in a “searchable and d...
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February 18, 2026
The San Francisco Standard gets $150K to build an AI-powered news app
The Lenfest Institute is giving The San Francisco Standard a $150,000 grant as part of its ongoing AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program. The local publication, which launched in 2021, will use t...
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February 11, 2026
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
In July 2025, the Justice Department announced it would not make any additional files public from its investigation into child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The backlash against the decision was ...
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February 5, 2026
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator P...
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January 28, 2026
News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback...
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January 26, 2026
Discover isn’t the only place Google is experimenting with AI-generated snippets
On Friday, The Verge’s Sean Hollister reported that Google is now calling AI-generated headlines in Discover a “feature,” not just an experiment. For several months now, Google has been rewriting h...
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January 22, 2026
People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds
Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Stu...
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January 21, 2026
Ads are coming to ChatGPT. News publishers with OpenAI deals won’t see a dime.
Ads are officially coming to ChatGPT. A new article from The Information confirms that OpenAI has already pitched placements in ChatGPT to dozens of advertisers. The report comes on the heels of an...
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