81st Annual Silurians Awards Honor Excellence in Journalism in Tri-State Area
Fifteen categories covering print, broadcast and online news are recognized.
By Michael S. Serrill
“They haven’t given us food, they haven’t given us medicine. We’re cold. There are people who’ve been here for 10, 15 days. We’re just waiting.”
That’s a quote from an inmate held last summer in the detention center for captured immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. He was speaking on one of two videos smuggled out of the center and obtained by The City Reporter, the probing online news outlet, (formerly The City), which provides some of the best reporting on every municipal topic.
Special Silurians Event—Thursday, August 20, 1 p.m.
Join us for a private, one-hour curated tour of Poster House, Manhattan’s vibrant museum dedicated to the art and history of the poster, and its stunning exhibition,
Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen
Background:
Starting in the 1880s, Black performers and those invested in telling stories centering Black people attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmful stereotypes used to portray Black characters. Shows began touting “All Colored Revues” to indicate that a cast was made up of actual Black performers rather than white people in blackface. Since theatrical performances were rarely recorded and many of the movies that featured all-Black casts are now considered “lost films” (films for which no copy is known to survive), advertising posters often provide the only remaining evidence of the most important productions featuring Black performers between the 1870s and the 1940s.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Space is limited to 30 for this exclusive tour—"first come, first served"
- Registration Deadline: Monday, August 17, 2026 at 12pm
Details:
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026
Time: 1 pm (60 to 75 minute tour)
Location: Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
(23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)
Cost: $15/person for Silurians and their guests.
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Journalism and AI
Love it or fear it, Artificial Intelligence is rapidly being integrated in newsrooms around the world. 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.
The next AI debate is unfolding within the news organization itself
Read Story in Editor & Publisher
News outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight
Read AP Story
How AI Is Changing Journalism and Media in 2026 — What Nobody Is Telling You
Read Medium Story
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft
Read NJ Globe Story
How to Run a News Company in the Age of Polarization and A.I. Slop
Read NYTimes Story [paywall]
NY Times publisher warns A.I. companies are violating settled law and urges news organizations to stand up for their rights>
Read Sulzberger Comments [paywall]
Future Newsrooms Study 2026: A global benchmark of how newsrooms are changing, what they are prioritising and where they are going next
Read FT Strategies Report
Exclusive: McClathcy Newspaper executives tell journalists to accept AI or face ruin
Read in SAN [limited paywall]
Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: CNN latest to sue Perplexity
Read Press Gazette Article
EXTRA! EXTRA! AI Just Wrote This Headline.
Read Oxford Free Press Story
Fighting the Machine
Read Columbia Journalism Review
Where Does Publishing’s A.I. Problem Leave Authors and Readers?
Read NY Times Story [paywall]
"Tested ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude on the Iran war — and one AI fed fake news."
Read Tom's Guide Review
AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work
Read Poynter Story
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
Read WSJ Story [paywall]
Can AI Save Local News?
Read WSJ Stroy [paywall]
News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year
Read WSJ story [paywall]
Growing more complex by the day: How should journalists govern use of AI in their products?
Read AP Analysis
A.I. Is Giving You a Personalized Internet, but You Have No Say in It
Read NY Times Story [paywall]
Opinon: As the AI arms race ramps up, we can’t let big tech control access to information
Read Opion in SF Chronicle
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Read WashiPost Story [paywall]
Publishers prepare to be “squeezed” by AI and creators in 2026
Read Neiman Labs Article
Hearst’s Tim O’Rourke on the future of AI in journalism
Read interview on Storybench
How will AI reshape the news in 2026? Forecasts by 17 experts from around the world
Read Reuters Institute Story
Opinion: news outlets that got AI right in 2025 — and the ones that got it very, very wrong
Read Poynter Institute Opinion
The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year
Read Story in Time
Report: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Read Semafor Story
New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content
Read Reuters Story
Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Read CNBC Story
The deepfake dilemma: When you can’t trust your eyes
Read Story in E&P
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
Read story in The Atlantic [paywall]
A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool?
Read NY Times Story [paywall]
NAB Survey:Americans Want AI Guardrails to Protect Local Journalism
Read National Assoc. of Broadcasters Survey
Can AI marketplaces save publishing’s future?
Read Editor & Publisher Article
BBC study shows AI misrepresent news content 45% of the time
Read BBC story
Most journalists use AI; few newsrooms have policies
Read E&P Article
Opinion: AI’s Copyright War Could Be Its Undoing. Only the US Can End It.
Read Bloomgberg Opinion [paywall]
Start spreading the news: AI has a place in media
Read E&P Article
Reddit Is Winning the AI Game
Read Article in CJR
News publishers split on AI: E&P survey reveals both promise and peril
Read Editor & Publisher Article
Publishers with AI licensing deals have seven times the clickthrough rate. But deals leave small outlets out in the cold.
Read Story in Press Gazette
Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT
Read Pew Research Study
AI -killing-the-Web: The-Economist
Read Story in The Economist [paywall]
Judge approves $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's alleged use of pirated books
Read Story on CBS
The Economist's AI Game Plan
Podcast on Newsroom Robots (subscription optional)
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
Read Report in Computerworld
Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Summaries
Read WSJ article [paywall]
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
Listen to Keep It Local podcast
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
SHORT VIDEO: AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports
CLICK to view video
AI startup Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for news articles used in its search results.
Read story in WS Journal paywall
SHORT VIDEO: How the New York Times uses AI in its investigations | AI and the Future of News 2025
CLICK to view video
AI-powered search tools threaten the survival of the online news industry
Read story on TechEDT
The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
Read Nieman Lab Study
Amazon to Pay New York Times at Least $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
Read WSJ Story paywallView more
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