Yesterday, Semafor published an AI-assisted conference report based on an analysis of hundreds of session transcripts.
"[Our audience] expects really high-quality analysis and whatever tool we’re using to get there is secondary," @semaforben.bsky.social told me. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/sema...
In January, we broke the story that publishers like The New York Times had started blocking the Internet Archive due to AI scraping concerns.
Now, five of the seven largest local news chains in the U.S. have done the same. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
Politico has agreed to shut down two AI editorial tools that were at the heart of a union arbitration it lost in November, according to its newsroom guild.
This was a major test for AI contract terms, which are now in more than 60 media contracts across the U.S.
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South American investigative journalists pioneered the use of satellite data and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.
Now, geospatial foundation models are making those same methods accessible to journalists around the world. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/geos...
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Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2026 Media Contacts: Kathleen Floyd, WBNG Communications — [email protected] PEN Guild — [email protected] WASHINGTON– The POLITICO and E&E N...
NEW: More than 340 U.S. local news outlets are restricting Internet Archive access.
@hanaatameez.bsky.social and I mapped out the full list, showing just how dire this trend is for the future of local news archives. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...
I broke the news of the arbitration ruling last year for @niemanlab.org More details in our past coverage:
- www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
- www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...
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McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.
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The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.
NEW: More than 340 local U.S. news outlets are limiting @archive.org's access to their journalism.
@andrewdeck.bsky.social and I have mapped out what at looks like across the country:
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personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
After McClatchy forced reporters at the Centre Daily Times to add their bylines to AI-generated articles, the Pennsylvania newspaper decided to unionize.
The NewsGuild-CWA says its their first union drive in the country due to concerns about newsroom AI adoption.
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Thanks to @gufalei.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.org @earthgenome.org and Joseph Poliszuk for sharing their insights!
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The local Pennsylvania outlet is the first newsroom under The NewsGuild-CWA to unionize in response to AI adoption.
