7/24/26 - AP has released updated newsroom standards governing the use of artificial intelligence, reinforcing that AI can assist journalists with specific tasks. Editorial judgment, verification and accountability remain the responsibility of AP journalists.
July 6, 2026 - It’s hard to keep track of everyone suing AI companies for stealing their work. Those gleaming AI platforms, the costliest computer systems ever built, are peddling more stolen goods than a seedy pawnshop. But it’s worth following a lawsuit filed June 24 by a group of small newspapers, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft pilfered news stories to train their AI systems.
June 19, 2026 - With so many ways to use AI, what does “AI-generated” mean, and how do audiences respond to different types and levels of AI use by journalists? And, if readers want news outlets to be transparent about their AI use (as previous research has found), but if knowing about AI actually use lowers their trust and perceived accuracy, how should publishers proceed?
May 21, 2026 - The abrupt delay came after leading AI executives had been briefed on the policy and invited to a Thursday signing in the White House.
March 23, 2026 - America’s Newspapers today issued the following statement in response to the comprehensive national legislative framework on artificial intelligence released by the Trump administration.
The newly announced framework outlines a broad, strategic approach to addressing the most pressing public policy challenges associated with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Among its six core objectives, America’s Newspapers highlighted the importance of the administration’s focus on intellectual property protections and support for creators — an issue of critical significance to the news publishing industry.
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March 11, 2026 - The IAB Tech Lab has a plan to get publishers paid by AI companies. Whether it works is another question.
The copyright infringement case pursued by several publishers against OpenAI has taken a new turn, one bound to cost time and money.
January 9, 2026 - Tim O’Rourke is the vice president of Editorial Innovation and AI Strategy at Hearst Newspapers. In this conversation with Storybench, he discusses how Hearst is approaching innovation, what makes newsroom AI trustworthy and where he sees the biggest opportunities ahead.
September 18, 2025 - The performance tests used by AI companies don’t measure what matters in the newsroom.
August 8, 2025 - Local newspapers have an intriguing new ally in their quest to get paid by AI firms hoovering their stories and putting their future at risk.
July 24, 2025 - The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the “All-In” podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.
June 25, 2025 - The share of Americans who have used ChatGPT, an AI chatbot released in November 2022, has roughly doubled since summer 2023. Today, 34% of U.S. adults say they have ever used ChatGPT, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
June 20, 2025 - A Trump-backed provision in Congress’ sweeping bill would block states from regulating AI for a decade unless they give up broadband funds.
June 9, 2025 - Are local news organizations benefiting from or getting crushed by artificial intelligence? Maryland Professor Tom Rosenstiel weighs the impact and potential.
ProPublica, Boston Globe Media, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Banner and Arizona State University’s NEWSWELL will launch AI experiments in partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft.
May 6, 2025 - A global group of broadcasters and publishers is calling on artificial intelligence developers to make sure their technology serves the public by helping to counter misinformation and protect the value of fact-based news.
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As AI becomes more integrated in operations, news organizations are facing questions about AI use and transparency. During the conference, Kevin Rehberg, vice president, client development, of the Alliance for Audited Media, was joined by Jessica Davis, vice president of news automation and AI product at Gannett, to present how to leverage AI’s benefits while remaining committed to editorial integrity. Here are highlights from their discussion.
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During the 2025 Mega-Conference in Orlando, Mike McCarthy, senior director of AI solutions with Hearst Newspapers, shared his approach to implementing GenAI in sales and operations — an approach that he said has put Hearst among the few companies that is making money with GenAI.
April 29, 2025 - Artificial intelligence is already affecting the way news is produced and received in the United States. But Americans are pessimistic about its long-term effect on the news people get and on the already-embattled journalism profession.
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April 14, 2025 - The Alliance for Audited Media is launching a certification program to help media organizations implement responsible, transparent AI practices that build trust with readers and advertisers.
March 24, 2025 - With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, new threats are emerging for local news publishers — especially when AI tools are used to repurpose content without authorization. America’s Newspapers is actively monitoring the misuse of AI in ways that negatively affect our members.
One example is Good Day, an AI-generated newsletter network now operating in 47 states and 355 towns, according to Andrew Deck’s reporting in Nieman Lab.
March 3, 2025 - Tollbit, an analytics and licensing platform for publishers and AI companies, has released its first AI User Agent Index, a quarterly report that tracks overall trends in the scraping habits of the AI industry. The report details that the click-through rates for AI chat bots are 95.7% lower than traditional Google search, with a referral rate of just 0.37%.
January 31, 2025 - With artificial intelligence reshaping how news is created and distributed, protecting original content has never been more important for local publishers. AI tools are generating articles and summaries based on journalism they didn’t create, often without credit or compensation. Without clear policies and legal safeguards, news organizations risk losing control over their work and its value.
View 10 tips for local publishers — provided by Seyfarth Shaw.
December 10, 2024 - Earlier this year, the WSJ owner sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content. Now its research tool Factiva has negotiated its own AI licensing deals.
The Center for Journalism & Liberty (CJL) at the Open Markets Institute has submitted a detailed letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, advocating for decisive action to dismantle Google’s monopoly over online search and search text advertising.
October 30, 2024 - In a new article in The Washington Monthly, Dr. Courtney C. Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, argues that the survival of artificial intelligence hinges on high-quality, human-generated content and data, which means that journalists, artists, content creators and analysts, have more leverage to be fairly compensated for their work than they might realize.
Hearst has announced a new content partnership with OpenAI which will integrate Hearst's extensive newspaper and domestic magazine content into OpenAI's products, enhancing the utility and reach of both companies' offerings.
September 10, 2024 - On Monday, Sept. 9, the Empire State Local News Coalition and Columbia Journalism School hosted “AI and Local News: Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in New York,” a panel convening experts in journalism, technology and government to explore how AI is reshaping local news and the opportunities it presents for cross-sector collaboration.
September 6, 2024 - In a column to readers, The Dallas Morning News explained its use of AI saying: "Our newsroom is dedicated to examining applications of AI technology in our work while maintaining the integrity of how we approach and produce journalism."
July 30, 2024 - Microsoft has released a white paper titled "Protecting the Public from Abusive AI-Generated Content" that encourages the government to pass a comprehensive deepfake fraud statute to protect against abusive AI-generated content.
July 26, 2024 - With the November presidential election only around three months away, it's unclear whether they would go into effect before Election Day. After the commission’s 3-2 vote on Thursday, the proposal now advances to a 30-day public comment period. After that, there's another 15-day reply period before the rule can be finalized.
July 25, 2024 - OpenAI is launching a test version of its long-awaited search engine, which it says will cite sources of information including news from business partners such as The Wall Street Journal parent News Corp and the Atlantic magazine.
May 17, 2024 - Journalists participating in the pilot program will use AI to produce bulleted “key points” of their story.
May 14, 2024 - In recent contract negotiations with parent company Gannett, a local newsroom union is fighting over the extent to which generative AI will be used for news content generation.
The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites, threatening millions of creators.
May 13, 2024 - AP has updated its guidance on the use of generative AI in the news report to allow for some experimentation around the use of the technology in specific use cases.
May 8, 2024 - AI is disrupting the local news industry: Will it unlock growth or be an existential threat?
March 28, 2024 - Overall, 54% of Americans say artificial intelligence programs that generate text and images, like ChatGPT and DALL-E, need to credit the sources they rely on to produce their responses. A much smaller share (14%) says the programs don’t need to credit sources, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. About a third say they’re not sure on this question.
March 25, 2024 - Until we create standards around artificial intelligence — even though it’s early in the game — we are holding back innovation.
March 17, 2024 - A fact-checking outlet is trying to teach artificial intelligence not to unwittingly spread fake pictures, videos, and other hoaxes about Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the leadup to the 2024 election.
February 28, 2024 - OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper "hacked" its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence for the case.
February 28, 2024 - The artificial intelligence start-up argued that its online chatbot, ChatGPT, is not a substitute for a New York Times subscription.
February 21, 2024 - The bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is aimed at formalizing an ongoing congressional effort to regulate emerging artificial intelligence technology.
February 14, 2024 - Each day, millions of people use powerful generative AI tools to supercharge their creative expression. In so many ways, AI will create exciting opportunities for all of us to bring new ideas to life. But, as these new tools come to market from Microsoft and across the tech sector, we must take new steps to ensure these new technologies are resistant to abuse.
February 13, 2024 - The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreak havoc.
February 12, 2024 - Uncertainty in the news industry, hype around AI, and hope for better business models and new revenue streams have all helped to drive news organizations to adopt AI technology, a new report from the Tow Center of Digital Journalism at Columbia University finds.
February 8, 2024 - Google is joining Microsoft, Meta and Adobe in supporting a standard for labeling media that can describe who created an image or video, when and how it was created, and the credibility of its source, the company announced Feb. 8.
February 8, 2024 - Drawing on 134 interviews with news workers at 35 news organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany and 36 international experts from industry, academia, technology and policy, this report examines the use of AI across editorial, commercial and technological domains with an eye to the structural implications of AI in news organizations for the public arena.
February 6, 2024 - Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Tuesday it is ramping up its capability to detect and label images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad.
Microsoft is launching several collaborations with news organizations to adopt generative AI.
January 19, 2024 - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the company is training its next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models and hopes to make it accessible to everyone through products such as AI smart glasses.
January 11, 2023 - News leaders told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that journalism is at risk of being snuffed out by tech giants that apparently care more about growing profits than preserving this cornerstone of democracy. Wednesday’s hearing focused on the latest threat to the battered local news industry, artificial intelligence systems scraping and regurgitating the work of print and broadcast journalists with little to no attribution or compensation.
January 10, 2023 - Today (Jan. 10), the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law will hold a hearing at 2 p.m. ET, on “Oversight of A.I.: The Future of Journalism,” which will explore the impact of the growth of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology on publishers’ ability to provide high-quality journalism and possible oversight mechanisms to help protect and sustain quality journalism.
January 9, 2024 - The artificial intelligence start-up said that it collaborated with news organizations and that The New York Times, which accused it of copyright infringement, was not telling the full story.
January 5, 2023 - As AI transforms the media landscape, a blend of technology and human touch will be the key to success.
January 3, 2024 - Leaders in newsroom use of generative artificial intelligence shared tips, tools and some optimistic predictions before the holidays at the NCTJ‘s Artificial Intelligence in Journalism event.
December 18, 2023 - Navigating the fast-paced world of local news can be a constant battle against tight deadlines and limited resources. But what if there was a way to boost your productivity and free up your team to focus on what matters most: impactful, community-based journalism?
December 13, 2023 - News-publishing giant Axel Springer has inked a multiyear licensing deal with AI pioneer OpenAI, a significant milestone as media companies push for compensation for the use of their content in AI tools.
December 6, 2023 - Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that’s likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils.
December 6, 2023 - An overwhelming majority of readers would like news publishers to tell them when AI has shaped the news coverage they’re seeing. But, new research finds, news outlets pay a price when they disclose using generative AI.
November 29, 2023 - On Nov. 29, News/Media Alliance President and CEO Danielle Coffey attended as an invited participant a bipartisan forum hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on “AI – Transparency, Explainability, Intellectual Property, & Copyright.”
November 27, 2023 - That an AI model was trained on copyrighted material does not make all of the model’s outputs a copyright violation.
November 21, 2023 - This post summarizes what is known so far about how Americans view AI in everyday life, the workplace, and health and medicine.
November 16, 2023 - Speaking to technology industry executives at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Tuesday, Executive Editor Julie Pace of The Associated Press outlined the biggest challenges news organizations expect to see this election cycle: misinformation and generative AI.
November 16, 2023 - Sens. John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) bill that would direct federal agencies to create standards aimed at providing transparency and accountability for AI tools, according to a copy of the bill released Wednesday.
November 13, 2023 - The first of its kind, the Paris Charter on AI and Journalism defines ethics and principles that journalists, newsrooms and media outlets around the world will be able to appropriate and apply in their work with artificial intelligence. It was created by a commission initiated by Reporters Without Borders and chaired by journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa.
November 9, 2023 - As fears rise over fake imagery generated by artificial intelligence flooding the internet, one of the world’s leading stock photo websites is openly selling AI images of the Israel-Hamas war.
November 2, 2023 - Generative artificial intelligence could be the death blow for local newspapers, depending on how it evolves. It could also present opportunities, judging from several developments this week.
October 31, 2023 - On Oct. 30, the News/Media Alliance published a White Paper and a technical analysis and submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on the use of publisher content to power generative artificial intelligence technologies (GAI). Together, the three publications document the pervasive, unauthorized use of publisher content by GAI developers, the impact this may have on the sustainability and availability of high-quality original content, and the legal implications of such use.
October 31, 2023 - "Several people asked me to give them tips and advice on how to use these and other AI-related tools after DALL-E 3 was released, so I decided to put together this guide as a one-stop resource for beginners who are interested in doing some image generation experiments of their own." — Joe Amditis, Center for Cooperative Media
October 31, 2023 - The artists say AI companies used their work to train an image generator, without paying them or getting permission, and the resulting images compete against the human artists' work in the marketplace.
October 31, 2023 - President Joe Biden on Monday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to balance the needs of cutting-edge technology companies with national security and consumer rights, creating an early set of guardrails that could be fortified by legislation and global agreements.
October 26, 2023 - Tackling immigration and safety, the order would require advanced AI models to undergo assessments before they can be used by federal workers and ease barriers to entry for highly skilled workers.
October 11, 2023 - As part of its ongoing efforts to help local newsrooms identify and adopt artificial intelligence-based solutions, The Associated Press has released the results of several AI-focused projects developed with local news outlets.
September 28, 2023 - Newsroom unions are also hoping to codify language that prevents companies from using AI to replace journalistic work.
September 28, 2023 - Nearly 200 AI-related bills have been introduced nationwide in state legislatures so far in 2023 — a more than four-fold increase compared to 2022.
September 26, 2023 - New comprehensive, global report on what news organizations are doing with AI exposes challenges and opportunities — and offers valuable insights for newsrooms of the future.
September 25, 2023 - Eight newsroom teams from the U.S and around the world will develop products and processes that harness AI to amplify truth and combat mis- and disinformation, as part of ICFJ’s Leap Innovation Lab kicking off this week.
September 22, 2023 - “When our models noticed stocks of companies moving in ways that typically indicate news, our system pinged the relevant beat reporter in Slack so he or she could hit the phones and see what’s going on. It’s a great way to break news.” — Louise Story
September 21, 2023 - A new, sweeping piece of legislation would force companies using artificial intelligence tools to review the impacts of automating critical business decisions.
September 21, 2023 - Medill’s Jeremy Gilbert envisions a future where tech leads to better journalism without destroying it.
September 20, 2023 - A day of AI-oriented events at the 13th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC23) discussed how AI can help newsrooms do their jobs, how investigations have revealed the harmful impact of AI technology on communities — and how journalists should approach a topic often framed by narratives of either hype or despair.
September 19, 2023 - Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated much of the public conversation about technology following the release of tools like ChatGPT and Jasper Chat. In our second MITRE-Harris Poll survey on AI trends, conducted in July 2023, we found that aspects of public trust in AI technologies have declined compared to our previous poll, which was conducted in November 2022.
September 19, 2023 - With artificial intelligence creating such controversy in journalism these days, the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board was curious how Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI program would handle the command, “Write a newspaper editorial arguing that artificial intelligence should not be used in journalism.”
September 14, 2023 - On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee for a hearing entitled, “Oversight of A.I.: Legislating on Artificial Intelligence.”
September 12, 2023 - We need more copy editors, "truth beats" and newsroom guidelines to combat artificial intelligence hallucinations.
September 12, 2023 - University of Oxford researchers found that few publishers with artificial intelligence guidance mention audience feedback on the topic.
September 8, 2023 - Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered.
September 6, 2023 - Today 26 organizations representing thousands of creative professionals around the world, including news, entertainment, magazine, and book publishing companies and the academic publishing sector, released Global Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
August 31, 2023 - The U.S. Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues as the agency figures out how to approach the subject.
Publishers including The Marshall Project and The Markup shared how reporters are using generative artificial intelligence in their newsrooms in their reporting processes — after some failed tests.
August 29, 2023 - Some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an already struggling news industry.
August 29, 2023 - Google's DeepMind unit is unveiling a new method it says can invisibly and permanently label images that have been generated by artificial intelligence.
August 25, 2023 - Salary negotiations — among the most high-stakes, emotionally fraught and psychologically complex processes many employees will ever experience — could soon get the artificial-intelligence treatment.
August 23, 2023 - Leading media organizations are issuing guidance on leveraging artificial intelligence in the newsroom at the same time they're making licensing deals to let AI firms use their content to train AI models.
August 22, 2023 - Senator Maria Cantwell said Monday that a federal privacy bill she introduced could help protect people from discrimination fueled by artificial intelligence.
August 11, 2023 - A group of the world's biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday.
August 11, 2023 - You might have heard about machine learning and algorithms. But do you know what read teaming and watermarking are?
August 2, 2023 - Smaller newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for years, and interest has grown since the latest releases of ChatGPT.
