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Andrew Deck

www.niemanlab.org
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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News media is “becoming part of AI systems”: Notes from the JournalismAI Festival 2025
London — Last month, fact checkers, newsroom leaders, product managers, and AI strategists gathered in the Southwark neighborhood of South London for the JournalismAI Festival 2025. The event broug...
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Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds
Last week, unionized journalists at Politico won a landmark arbitration regarding AI adoption in their newsroom. In the ruling issued on November 26, an arbitrator found that Politico management vi...
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