Journalism and AI
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated in newsrooms around the world in a variety of ways even as it is redefining and challenging the online news business. Here you will find links to articles, clips and videos that will be updated from time to time to help better understand this accelerating trend.
Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Summaries
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Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training
Read AP Story
The AI Doomers Are Losing the Argument
"Weekend Essay on Bloomberg [paywall]
A Complete List of Publishers and Their AI Licensing Deals (as of Sept. 1, 2025)
Read FutureWeek Story
‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model
Read The Guardian Story
Why The Baltimore Times sees AI as a friend, not a threat
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Gender gap in who uses AI. Recent study finds usage tilts heavily toward men.
Read story in WS Journal [paywall]
I Wanted a ‘Team of Rivals’ to Give Me Advice. So I Turned to AI.
Read story in WS Journal [paywall]
Can AI help local journalists cover 169 towns? A Connecticut out is working to find out
Read Poynter Report
Amazon to Pay New York Times at Least $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
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SHORT VIDEO: How the New York Times uses AI in its investigations | AI and the Future of News 2025
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AI startup Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for news articles used in its search results.
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SHORT VIDEO: AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports
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The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
Read Nieman Lab Study
