Business Insider wants more of its employees to use ChatGPT, and for them to use it more often. In an all-hands, leadership named the top 10 ChatGPT users on staff to encourage adoption. BI told me 70% of employees are already using ChatGPT "regularly." niemanlab.org/2025/05/busine…

One Pulitzer Prize winner and three finalists disclosed using AI to this year's judging committee. I spoke to the journalists involved about how they used AI tools in their reporting. My latest for Nieman Lab. niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-th…

Anthropic’s new AI model didn’t just “blackmail” researchers in tests — it tried to leak information to news outlets niemanlab.org/2025/05/anthro…

"I don’t want to just be entering text prompts for the rest of my life." I spoke to political cartoonists, including Pulitzer-winner Mark Fiore, about how they are using AI image generators in their work. My latest for Nieman Lab. niemanlab.org/2025/06/i-dont…

"It is critical to not let journalism be chewed up and spit out by technologies yet again." A year into its OpenAI litigation, CIR is one of the only journalism nonprofits to sue an AI company. I asked CEO Monika Bauerlein and the CIR legal team why. niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-i…

Law360 is requiring all stories pass through an AI "bias indicator" before publication. The policy came after an executive from its parent company, LexisNexis, accused the newsroom of liberal bias in its Trump admin coverage. My latest for Nieman Lab. niemanlab.org/2025/07/law360…

Today, Dow Jones launched a French version of its newswire using custom-built machine translation. It's part of a larger push to bring "real-time," AI-powered translations to the newswire, including services in Korean and Japanese. My latest @niemanlab. niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-pres…

A new study by Muck Rack recorded over 1 million citations output by major generative AI models. Journalistic content was cited in 27% of responses, a number that jumped to 49% when those responses required "a level of recency." niemanlab.org/2025/07/genera…

In a July arbitration hearing, Politico's top editors testified that two recent AI experiments don't need to meet journalistic editorial standards. Union members alleged those experiments violated AI guidelines in their contract. My latest @niemanlab niemanlab.org/2025/08/politi…

Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued Perplexity for copyright infringement. The filing claims that Perplexity accessed 119,467 articles on Yomiuri’s site between February and June of this year. Nieman Lab niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans…

A new report from Center for Local Media asks what it takes for small local newsrooms to build an AI chatbot. Researchers helped four newsrooms launch experimental chatbots in under a month. But only one has committed to running their chatbot beyond the program. niemanlab.org/2025/08/local-…

In France, reporters are getting a cut of AI licensing revenue. Le Monde, for example, will redistribute 25% of its deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. I dug into these union agreements and asked why they haven’t made it across the Atlantic. niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-fra…

A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer. Hanaa’ Tameez with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. niemanlab.org/2025/09/from-r…

For The Nation: I reviewed Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and took a closer look at her argument that OpenAI’s "scaling laws" echo the expansionist ideologies of European empires. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Great to chat with Ryan Howzell at NYU’s Ethics & Journalism Initiative about my reporting! We talked about AI "bias detectors,” automated fact-checking, and navigating both the hype and fear cycles on my beat. ethicsandjournalism.org/2025/09/18/nie…

"I’ve had people tell me they're afraid to go on the air, and after 40 years on the air, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that." A new report from News is Out: National Queer Media Collaborative asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. niemanlab.org/2025/09/local-…

Deepfakes of broadcast journalists are spreading across social media. Many of them are ads selling cryptocurrencies, gambling apps, and snake oil medicines. Meanwhile, social media companies like Meta profit off the ad dollars. My latest Nieman Lab. niemanlab.org/2025/10/scamme…

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages have dropped off in recent months. Our analysis shows that since May 16, the number of captures available for 100 top news sites declined by 87%. Hanaa’ Tameez and l report for @niemanlab. niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-wa…