Tech

Journalists and other experts tell us how, in the age of AI, technology is transforming the work of visual forensics. “We might have to be a little bit more imaginative,” Emily Tripp, of Airwars, says.

Resisting assumptions about the inevitable, and drifting your own way.

A new book argues that news organizations should enthusiastically adopt AI to improve their journalism. Critics aren’t so sure.

Max Spero—a cofounder of Pangram, an AI detection tool popular among journalists—asks, “If you’re not going to bother writing your newsletter, why should I read it?”

I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.

“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment feels like it’s a fair transaction price, you say yes.”

The Society of Professional Journalists is taking a red pencil to its ethics guidelines—the first update since 2014.

News organizations have embraced AI narrators. But how does artificial mediation change our relationship to a piece of writing?

Clearing up confusion about how and why to disclose AI use in writing.

Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training.

In the first edition of our new technology advice column, Ask Anika, we learn what happens when you feed unpublished work into an LLM.

The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site.

A coalition of tech-minded journalists and security trainers built an AI chatbot for safety advice, targeted at small newsrooms and freelancers. 

Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.

Trump’s media company keeps getting weirder.