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Medill Local News Initiative Report: Readers Don’t Trust AI Use in News Stories
Nieman Lab summary here.
Major Record Labels Call to Disqualify AI Slop Songs From Global Charts
CJR: Predictive journalism: On the role of computational prospection in news media
HackerNoon: Google’s AI Search Answers Have a Reddit Problem
French Journalist Found More Than 15,000 Fake News Sites
French investigative journalist and educator Jean-Marc Manach has spent two years tracking AI-generated ‘news’ sites and has identified more than 15,000 of them – some earning millions of dollars by gaming Google Discover. He explains how to spot them, and why the industry should be worried.
HOW AI WORKS
Financial Times: How Generative AI Works
An incredible scrolltelling visual explanation.
The Verge: AI is a Lot of Work
A behind-the-scenes look at How AI works. Very important read.
The Language of Artificial Intelligence Explained
How ChatGPT Works
An article and videos by Jay Alammar explains the fundamentals
Poynter: AI Literacy
Guides, articles, tools and more
AI Terms and Definitions
From Sil Hamilton, AI expert’s materials from a Knight Center AI tools training
Illustrating Word2Vec
A visual of how AI works, converting words to numbers.
How NDAs Keep AI Data Center Details Hidden from Americans
Trusting News: New Research: Journalists Should Disclose Their Use of AI. Here’s How.
What do audiences expect from media using AI? They want to know how they’re using it.
Financial Times: In the Age of AI, What Should Your Kids Study at University?
Google AI Prompting Guide
Knight Fellows Stanford: Theft is Not Fair Use
Trusting News: A New Way of Seeking Audience Feedback
2024 post on how to reframe questions to your audience to provoke better feedback
Powering the News
Free resources for “worker-friendly” newsrooms from the Reynolds Journalism Institute. It includes quizzes, guidebooks and templates. It also features a newsroom database, which is based on the first national survey of non-traditional, worker-friendly media.
Sand in the Gears for Humans-in-the-Loop
Great take from RJI’s Damon Kiesow on keeping AI use human-centric.
Flaurent Daudents: The Half of Journalism AI Can’t Do Yet
A new paper from Oxford and Stanford built a seven-agent “virtual newsroom.” Daudents tested it, and the result says less about whether AI can do journalism, more about which half of the job is still ours as journalists.
Video: Openness As Attitude, Vulnerability as Practice: Finding Our Way With GenAI
“Towards Accurate Quote-Aware Summarization of News Using Generative AI”
From Generative AI in the Newsroom (June 2023)
Computers & Security: Comparative Analysis of OSINT Tools
A paper analyzing the features of 150 OSINT tools, services, and databases and produced helpful comparison tables. (Via Indicator)
“Welcome to Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial”
Anthropics (Oct. 2024), available on Github
“Prompting Techniques and Best Practices for Journalists”
From Generative AI in the Newsroom (June 2024)
“How to Use AI to Do Practical Stuff: A New Guide”
By Ethan Mollick on One Useful Thing (March 29, 2023)
Major Record Labels Call to Disqualify AI Slop Songs From Global Charts
CJR: Predictive journalism: On the role of computational prospection in news media
Nieman Lab: Local Newsrooms Are Using AI to Listen in on Public Meetings
Poynter: Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than you
NYT: Is AI a Journalist or Just a Newsroom Tool?
Reuters: What impact is generative AI having on journalism?
GIJN: Best Guides and Tipsheets for Investigative Reporters (2025)
Nieman Lab: Testing Kagi, a Premium Search Engine in a Broken Internet
Nieman Lab: How 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners Used AI in Their Reporting
How Do News Audiences Experience and React to Generative AI in Journalism?
The Mobile Revolution vs. The AI Revolution
Peta Pixel’s Unethical Use of AI for News Photo
The Rise and Potental of LLM-Based Agents
Nieman Lab: 2025 Journalism Projectctions
Twipe: 10 Ways Journalists Use AI in the Newsroom
BBC Launching GenAI Pilots to Support News Production
Three Ways AI Will Transform Journalism in 2025
Axios: AI Outlook – Key Policies and Deals
The Signs That Newsrooms Are Getting Serious About AI
Editor and Publisher: The Emerging World of AI-Powered Search
E&P: Concerned About Your News Organizations Plummeting Search Traffic?
AI for Newsrooms
Everything about AI for journalism in one place — curated for editors, reporters, and local newsrooms. Track real initiatives, policies, research, tools, and a daily newsfeed.
Poynter AI Leadership Hub
Focuses on AI literacy, training and ethics.
Center for News, Technology & Innovation
Advancing independent media, an open internet, and informed policy through global research, dialogue and innovation.
Poynter: How Fact-Checkers Can Use AI Wisely
Excellent tips and tools
AI Use Policy
Link NKY policy they post on how they handle AI use in the newsroom
Sand in the Gears of Humans in the Loop
Damon Kiesow on how people can’t just “settle” for what AI produces.
Nieman Lab: AI Use, Growth Challenges, and Funding Cuts: A New Report Looks at the State of Nonprofit News
More than eight in 10 Institute for Nonprofit News members reported using AI-based tools in 2025, according to the latest INN Index.
London School of Economics: 10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
September 2022.
HackerNoon: Google’s AI Search Answers Have a Reddit Problem
French Journalist Found More Than 15,000 Fake News Sites
French investigative journalist and educator Jean-Marc Manach has spent two years tracking AI-generated ‘news’ sites and has identified more than 15,000 of them – some earning millions of dollars by gaming Google Discover. He explains how to spot them, and why the industry should be worried.
AI GUIDES AND ARTICLES
MIT AI Risk Repository
Detailed list of 700-plus risks
Wonder Tools Database
A collection of tools and resources from Jeremy Caplan’s popular Wonder Tools newsletter compiled in this searchable Airtable database.
Reuters Digital News Report (2026)
New data on where news website traffic is coming from, viewer habits and more.
US House of Representatives AI Task Force Report (2025)
Generative AI in Journalism: The Evolution of Newswork and Ethics in a Generative Information Ecosystem (April 2024)
includes responses from almost 300 news professionals to better understand generative AI and its use in the field of journalism.
Hacks/Hackers: How Apple’s AI Announcement Signals the Decline of Apps and the Web Itself
Interesting piece by Burt Herman on AI’s impact on the web. (summer 2024)
Tow Center for Digital Journalism News Publisher-AI Company Tracker
Monitor the evolving relationship between news publishers and AI companies. Itcatalogs lawsuits, licensing deals, etc. on publicly available information, giving a clearer picture of how this landscape is taking shape. You can export data from the site.
Updated Guide for Using LLMs for Local News
Joe Amditis’s guide has been updated December 2024
BBC Study: Generative AI and Audiences
Claptools
A mix of AI productivity tools, including a YouTube video-to-text tool.
Medill Local News Initiative Report: Readers Don’t Trust AI Use in News Stories
Nieman Lab summary here.
Reuters Digital News Report 2025
Data and outlook on the current state of online media.
Nieman Lab: A Record-Breaking Eight Pulitzer Awardees Disclosed AI Use This Year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
Tech Policy Press: Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts
AI Glossary
Database of dozens of AI terminology, written in plain language so we can understand it.
Lenfest Institute: How news organizations are creating trust-based AI policies
Plucky Wire
Newswire site to upload stories for republication elsewhere
Nieman Lab: Newsrooms Limit Internet Archive Access Over AI Scraping Concerns
Journalism 2030 Entrepreneurial Toolkit
Resources from CUNY’s Jeremy Caplan: Syllabi, tools, resources, handouts, etc.
European Commission: Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
The EU has guidelines on handling AI transparency as of June 2026
AI Enforcement Monitor Germany & EU
Tracks officially published investigations, orders, fines, remedies, and appeals involving AI and automated decision-making in Germany and across the EU. Each entry links to the official source and preserves the procedural stage, legal basis, and a permanent evidence dossier, without generating a compliance score or automated legal interpretation. It is a free, continuously updated research tool for journalists who need to verify what authorities have actually published and distinguish open proceedings from final decisions.
Using AI Demands Expertise
Post by Damon Kiesow, Knight Chair at the University of Missouri.
Pew Research 2025 Study: Concern and Excitement About AI
Muck Rack: Three Writers Weigh in on AI and Journalism
AI Resources Collection
Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative media lists tools and guides for newsrooms.
OpenAI: ChatGPT Models and Limits
Helps you decide which version of ChatGPT to use for each task
The AI Proficency Report (2024)
Free e-book
Nordic AI Media Summit Summary 2026
Graphite: More Articles are Produced by AI Than Humans
Study by Graphite on AI slop
MIT Study on AI Written Content
In some cases, AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans
Steal These Custom Instructions Templates
AI and automation: An updated guide to using LLMs for local news, Center for Cooperative Media (2024) and Joe Amditis.
Pew Research Center: How Audiences of 30 Major News Sources Differ by Age
Originality AI Study
It is often hard for people to distinguish whether content is created by AI.
INMA: Research Shows Impact of AI on Newsrooms
From July 2025
“In the Room Where It Happens: Generative AI Policy Creation in Higher Education”
Co-authored with Esther Brandon, Dana Gavin and Allison Papini. EDUCAUSE Review (May 2025)
“Does AI have a copyright problem?” (May 2025)”
“Growing Orchids Amid Dandelions”
From Inside Higher Ed
Video: OE Week Live! March 5 Open Exchange on AI
AI panel with Jonathan Poritz (Independent Consultant in Open Education), Amy Collier and Tom Woodward (Middlebury College) and Liza Long (College of Western Idaho).
The AI Use Case Journalism Keeps Missing: an Institutional Brain
Top AI Tools
A database of hundreds of useful tools
How Much Electricity Does AI Consume? [2025 Summary]
The Community AI Workflow Hub
The Rundown’s one-stop shop to learn how everyday builders are actually applying AI — and to share your own. It’s a good way to network and find examples of how journalists and others are using AI.
Nieman Lab: A Record-Breaking Eight Pulitzer Awardees Disclosed AI Use This Year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
Press Gazette (UK): Eight in Ten of World’s Biggest News Websites Now Block AI Training Bots
GPTZero: 9 Best AI Detectors With The Highest Accuracy in 2026
News Media Help Desk: We Graded How Five Free AI Chatbots Performed Journalism Tasks. Here’s What We Learned …
Video: Technology & Society: Generative AI with Autumm Caines and Dr. Lance Eaton
Thomson Reuters: Three Steps to an AI-Ready Newsroom
Nieman Lab: How Does Grok Figure Out Its Version of the Truth? It Asks Elon
AI: How to Get Ahead Without Being Irrelevant
How GenAI Tools are Helping Journalists Monitor Public Meetings
EBU News Report 2025: Leading Newsrooms in the Age of Generative AI
Peter Pachal: Five Predictions for AI and the Media in 2026
Hacks/Hackers: Successfully Using AI in the Newsroom: Newsroom Leaders to Follow
INMA: AI Can Create Content But Not Journalism
Useful Tools and Websites from News Organizations
CJR: I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism
The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists
New Yorker: Will the Humanities Survive AI?
Psychological Factors Underlying Attitudes Toward AI Tools
Rethinking journalism: How should newsrooms embrace the creator economy?
IJNET: Fidelity to Source is Vital When Using AI
Journalist’s Resource: What Journalists and the Public Think About Journalism and Technology
Amedia Got Half its Journalists to Use AI by Keeping it SimpleGenAI in the Newsroom: How Full Fact Uses GenAI to Find Harmful Health Advice
GenAI in the Newsroom: Agentic Search for Investigative Journalism
AI Took My Voice. I Want it Back
Nieman Lab: Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI
Reuters Institute: How Audiences in Six Countries Look at AI in News (2024)
Nieman Lab Prediction 2025: AI Turns News into a Conversation
Nieman Lab: Publishers Find the AI Era Not All That Lucrative
GenAI in the Newsroom: Benchmarking LLM Performance for Journalism
Ole Reissman: Getting Started: Essential AI and Journalism Resources for 2025
Poynter: What News Audiences Can Teach Journalists About AI
Harriet Meyer: What AI Tool Should You Use for Your Media Tasks
GenAI for Newsrooms: Structured Outputs: Making LLMs Reliable for Document Processing
15 Times to Use AI and 5 Times Not To
ICFJ: 8 Solutions for Mitigating Bias in AI-Assisted Reporting
The Guardian: US newspapers are Deleting Old Crime Stories, Offering Subjects a ‘Clean Slate’
Bloomberg Technology: AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
Nieman Lab 2025 Predictions: AI Helps Us Revisit Old Journalism Territory
Journalism.co.uk: 2025 Predictions for Journalism
The Media Copilot: How Reporters Can Use AI to Track Their Beat
Poynter: How to Create a Newsroom Artificial Intelligence Ethics Policy
Trusting News: Emphasize Human Involvement to Build Trust with AI
GenAI In the Newsroom: How a Danish News Service Made a Profit with its Transcription Tool
Werd IO: Building a Newsroom Technology Culture
Nieman Lab: Study Shows AI Search Engines Fail to Produce Accurate Citations
News Lab: Deepfakes, Trust and AI
I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats
CUNY: New JESS AI Tool Seeks to Democratize Journalist Safety GuidanceJournalism.co.uk: Gear, Apps and Workflows: Rob Layton’s Complete Mobile Journalism Checklist
GenAI in the Newsroom Archive: Ethics
GenAI in the Newsroom Archive: Prompting
How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age
The Generative Adversarial News Network
Tools for local AI-assisted reporting that run on a local computer.
Portraits
AI coaching from trusted experts, by Google Labs
GIJN: 10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism (2022)
Kris Krug: GenAI Tools and Techniques
An excellent blog on AI and other technology. Krug also writes a newsletter
Google Machine Learning Crash Course
Free course to learn AI with interactive exercises and video lectures
Poynter: How to Fix Link Rot
Freelancing for Journalists: Six Dos and Don’ts for Using AI in Your Reporting
NY Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyright
A case that will have a huge impact on intellectual property in the AI era
A Quick Guide to AI-powered Scams
Explores many typesof scams, including voice cloning
European Union Passes Artificial Intelligence Act
Law has sweeping regulations on AI use
AI Procurement and Use Guidebook for Newsrooms
Produced by the Partnership on AI and the Knight Foundation.
Trails
Easily build a step-by-step guide. No copying and pasting screenshots. Just record your process and out comes a beautiful guide.
Which AI Should I Use?
This guide breaks down which tools to use for which job?
MIT Study: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
College students: This is why you don’t use LLMs to write your story.
Trends on Artificial Intelligence (2025)
Mary Meeker’s 340-page AI report on the state of AI.
Ignorance AI: How to Fall Behind in the Age of AI
BBC News Finds That AI Tools ‘Distort’ its Journalism into ‘a Confused Cocktail’ with Many Errors
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition ‘Atrophied and Unprepared’
AI, Visual Journalism and Disinformation Bibliography 2024
An excellent collection of articles, issues and other links from Regina McCombs at the University of Minnesota.
AI is Likely a Bad News Editor
Damon Kiesow, Knight chair at the University of Missouri, on how summarization tools might on be all they are cracked up to be.
Nieman Lab: For the First Time, Two Pulizer Winners Used AI in Their Articles
2024 winner disclosed using AI while researching, reporting, or drafting their submitted stories.
GIJN: New AI and Large Language Model Tools for Journalists: What to Know
Rowan Philp’s excellent article from the 2024 NICAR conference on how to use AI.
The Guardian: Where Are the Godmothers of AI? Women’s Voices Not Heard in Tech
Article by Luba Kassova, an award-winning evidence-based storyteller and author of “The Missing Perspectives of Women in the News”.
TechCrunch: The Other Election Night Winner? Perplexity
Amazing Artificial Intelligence Statistics
Created by Exploding Topics in 2024
Artificial Ignorance: How to Build an AI Search Engine
Fiddler’s 2025 Enterprise Guardrails Benchmarks Report
Beyond the Prompt Podcast: What AI Can’t Replace in Journalism
Clare Spencer: How to Check Whether AI Assistants Are Distorting Your News Stories
The International Baccalaureate: Integrating AI into Teaching
Practical examples outlining how artificial intelligence can be integrated ethically and effectively into coursework.
Generative AI and Public Service Media
In this new publication, the European Broadcasting Union communities of News, Technology & Innovation, Digital, and Legal & Policy have extracted the hot button topics around generative AI for public service media. The text notes the potential positive and negative impacts of generative AI on public service media’s ability to function properly and calls for a coordinated approach covering: data use, source attribution and display, as well as prominence and verification.
Generative AI in the Newsroom: Generative AI’s Impact on Journalistic Labor
By Nick Diakopoulos
Economic Times: Who Has Banned DeepSeek So Far
Italy, Taiwan, Australia, multiple government agencies, India’s Finance Ministry, various US agencies, and more.
Global GPT
Use more than 1,000 tools, including text, images, code, videos, and academic research, all in one spot. Includes ChatGPT, Midjourney, Grok, Claude and many other AI tools.
Treasure Chest
For paid Wonder Tools subscribers, this is a resource collection includes handouts, freebies and other resources.
Builtin24 Directory
Listing of useful apps and tools
What Generative AI Means for the Media Industries, and Why it Matters to Study the Collective Consequences for Advertising, Journalism, and Public Relations
Journal article rom Andrea Guzman and Seth Lewis
Trusting News AI Trust Kit
Research, how to write disclosures and more
Drone Database
Center for a New American Security database that lists information about drones from around the world
Brilliant
A library of interactive lessons in AI, programming, logic, data science, etc. Free for a short period
Poynter: OnPoynt AI Innovation Report
Outlines threats and benefits for the journalism industry
AI Links Organzied by Category
A great set of tool links from Ethan Holland
AI Content Minds
Get insights, tips, and guides on AI-powered content creation tools.
HackerNoon: How to Build an AI Chatbot with Python and the Gemini API
Rest of World: How AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes
I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again
The Audiencers: AI in the Newsroom: Five Use Cases to Leverage AI in Your Operations
Who is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms
NY Magazine: Perplexity Demonstrates the Other Big Problem With AI Search
View Magazine: How AI Helped Me Capture My Father’s Rich, Unknown Life
Nieman Lab: Indian Journalists Are on the Frontline Against Election Deepfakes
Nieman Lab: Newsweek is Making Generative AI a Fixture in its Newsroom
Zach Seward: Creating Structure With AI
Wired: Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested ofr Potential Harm Against Citizens
BBC: Content Provenance and the Fight Against Disinformation
Poynter: New AP Stylebook Guidelines on AI
Journalist’s Resource: Researchers Compare AI Policies and Guidelines at 52 News Organizations
Opinion: Big Tech Companies are Buring Through Reservoirs of Trust With AI
Generative AI in the Newsroom
Medium posts from Northwestern’s Nick Diakopoulos and others on how to implement AI.
Meta: Guidelines for Labeling AI-Generated Images on Social
AI Tool Mall
A searchable database of AI tools, organized by topic.
Government Technology: AI Chatbot Murrow Teaching Journalism and Critical Thinking
First Magazine and Podcast Made Entirely With AI
A Beginner’s Guide to Image Generation with DALL-E 3
How to use DALL-E 3, plus a gallery of 50 art styles to use when generating images. From Joe Amditis at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.
Guide to Teaching Journalism Online
Buy the text or read it for free online
Nine Ways to Use AI on Your Phone
An excellent X/Twitter thread on how to use various AI tools and apps
OpenAI Prompt Engineering Guide
The guide shares strategies and tactics for getting better results from large language models (sometimes referred to as GPT models) like GPT-4. The methods described here can sometimes be deployed in combination for greater effect. We encourage experimentation to find the methods that work best for you.
AI, Tech and Privacy Academy
From the site: Foster legal knowledge and critical thinking about technology in two main ways: first, our free channels—the newsletter, live lessons, AI book club, and social media content—reach thousands of people every day, spreading awareness and curiosity around the topic. Second, our training programs offer in-depth perspectives on technology and its legal & ethical challenges, empowering participants to upskill and advance their careers. [We] invite you to join our network, reimagine technology, and broaden your leadership opportunities.”
Council of Europe: Guidelines on the Responsible Implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems in Journalism
AI Pro Max
Access to tips and tools
How AI Could Sap — or Save — Local News
Steve Waldman opinion piece for Poynter. One conclusion: AI will require more local reporters not fewer reporters.
RJI: Make a Strategic Investment in AI for the Future
Journalism.co.uk: Six AI Newsletters for Journalists
Reuters Institute: Focus on the Humans, Not the Robots: Tips from the Author of AP Guidelines on How to Cover AI
A Q&A with Garance Burke, who led the development of the AI chapter in the latest edition of the AP Stylebook.
Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting: Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter
Google Cloud Skills Boost: GenerativeAI Learning Path
Free comprehensive training: AI, large language models, responsible AI, image generation and more.
Knight Center: Useful Artificial Intelligence Resources for Journalists
A great list of tools and guides.
PineCone: Understanding Hallucinations in AI – A Comprehensive Guide
Prompt Engineering Guide
Excellent primer on how to write effective prompts
Fair Use, Copyright, and the Challenge of Memorization in the NYT vs. OpenAI
By Nick Diakopoulos at Northwestern University
Aspen Digital: Navigating Uncharted Waters: Generative AI Guidance for Organizations (Aspen Digital Institute) Guide on responsible use of Gen AI by employees
Poynter: How Should We Use News Produced by AI? A Guide for Publishers
Microsoft: Introduction to Prompt Engineering
CNN: The Era of Deepfakes in Politics is Upon Us
Google SEO Starter Guide
The basics from Google Search Central that includes pages of documentation, including AI’s impact on search
AI Contently: Impact of AI on Search and Content SEO
It’s helping to better understand the intent behind the content.
Forbes: How AI Will Revolutionize the Future of SEO
GPTbot
OpenAI’s webcrawler has documentation that news orgs can use to block the crawler from grabbing their content.
Nieman Lab 2024 Predictions: Visuals Get a Boost from AI-Powered Tools
USC’s Amara Aguilar shares ideas on how AI will impact tools for journalists in 2024.
Washington Post: These Look Like Prizewinning Photos. They’re AI Fakes
A look at ethics, AI and fake news photos
A Checklist for the Procurement of External AI Systems by Media Organizations
Scade.pro
Find more than 1,500 AI tools using this platform
Prompt Engineering Guide
Basics of prompt-writing, including prompt types, formats, techniques and examples.
Ultimate Prompt Engineering Guide for Text Generation
GPT for Sheets and Docs guide
How to use GPT for Sheets and Docs add-ons.
Fine Tuning Tutorial: TikTok Scripts
A basic guide to scripts for the social platform
Publishing Growth: Seven Must-Have AI Tools for Journalists
Mario Garcia Blog: AI Is Like a Crane Doing the Heavy Lifting for Humans
GIJN: How to Identify and Investigate AI Audio Deepfakes, a Major 2024 Election Threat
Verification Handbook: How to Think About Deepfakes and Emerging Manipulation Technologies
Future of News: AI Needs Journalism More Than Journalism Needs AI
Washington Post: AI is Destabilizing ‘the Concept of Truth Itself’ in 2024 Election
Wired: Educators are going All-In on Generative AI
10 Prompt Snippets to Improve ChatGPT’s Writing
RJI: Resources for Training Pop-Up Community Newsroom Reporters in Deep-Dive Journalism Basics
Forbes: 10 Most Important AI Trends for 2024 That Everyone Must Be Ready For
The Economist: The 5 Best Books for Understanding AI
Economic Potential of Generative AI
Christian Science Monitor: Can AI Programs be Trusted to Report the News?
Generative AI in the Newsroom: News Illustration with Generative AI
Online Journalism Blog: This is How I’ll be Teaching Journalism Students ChatGPT (and Generative AI) Next Semester
Teaching advice from Paul Bradshaw
Meet the AI Bots
A guide by Jeremy Caplan of Wonder Tools
AI in Media Slide Presentation
Ezra Eeman’s slide deck on how to navigate AI and incorporate it into your workflow. Check out his Wayfinder newsletter as well.
AI is Driving a Photo-Software Revolution
Joanna Stern looks at how Adobe Firefly, Midjourney and Try It On make it tough to tell what’s real.
Fast Company: The Creative Evolution of Generative AI
Guest opinion piece by an Adobe director on how the company is designing GenAI to accelerate human creativity, not replace it.
One Useful Thing
Outlines the impact of AI on work and education
Project Management in Newsrooms Guide
Download the PDF here
Brilliant
Short lessons in AI, technology, programming and more make it simple. Free 30-day trial.
9 Ways to Use AI in the Workplace
Generative AI in the Newsroom: Why Should News Organizations (Not) Build an LLM
JournalismAI Starter Pack
A guide designed to help news organizations learn about the opportunities offered by AI to support their journalism.
QRX
Generates artistic QR codes
Noah
Integrates ChatGPT with Google Drive, Notion and other tools.
FineCam
Build and share videos
Toolspedia
Helps you find AI tools
AI Stash
Search for AI tools
Algorithms in the Newsrooms: Challenges and Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence with the Ethical Values of Journalism
Research-based analysis of the ethics of AI and journalism by Patrícia Ventura Pocino.
Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
By Matt Bornstein and Rajko Radovanovic:
The Decade of Deep Learning
By Leo Gao
Fast Company: AI is painful for journalists—but healthy for journalism
Fast Company: How AI is Transforming News into a Two-Way Conversation
The New Yorker: Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art
GenAI Newsroom: Can AI Triage a Pitch? A Case Study in Editorial Evaluation from Minority Africa
Project Manager Playbook for Collaborative Journalism
Building a Toolset for Journalism Collaborations
Giant list of Useful Tools and Websites
Columbia Journalism Review: The News Media and AI: A New Front in Copyright Law
NY Times: ‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
Local News Initiative: Q&A With Northwestern’s Jeremy Gilbert on Artificial Intelligence
Nieman Lab: AP Announces 5 AI Tools to Help Local Newsrooms
The Fix: Nine AI Tools to Save Journalists Time and Money
Digital Content Next: What Generative AI Means to Media Companies
Nieman Lab: Journalists Productively Harness Generative AI Tools
EdSurge News: What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective
Birmingham City University: Generative AI Diversity Guidelines – Birmingham School of Media
What Can ChatGPT Do for Newsrooms?
Nieman Lab: Can AI Help Local Newsrooms Streamline Newsletters?
Podcast: Leveraging Generative AI with Jeff Sonderman
Wired: To Save Itself, Hollywood Must Build Its Own ChatGPT
The Atlantic: Google’s New Search Tool Could Eat the Internet Alive
Generative AI in Media & Journalism: Think Big, But Read the Small Print First
Fortune: Fighting Bias in A.I. Means Acknowledging it Exists
Semianalysis (Substack): Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
Marc Andreesen: Why AI Will Save the World
Emily Bender: AI – Resist the Urge to Be Impressed
Nieman Lab: Pres Freedom Means Controlling the Language of AI
Aimee Rinehart: Let’s Collaborate to Build a Journalism-Specific LLM
IJNet: How AI-Generated Images are Complicating Efforts to Combat Disinformation
GIJN: Tips for Investigating Algorithm Harm — and Avoiding AI Hype
Generative AI in the Newsroom: AI and News: What’s Next?
Poynter: To Build Trust in the Age of AI, Journalists Need New Standards and Disclosures
Nieman Reports: Smart Ways Journalists Can Explore AI
Venture Beat: Stability AI Unveils Its First LLM as Open-Source Race Continues
PR Newswire: Communications, AI and Role of Ethics
AI Comprehensive Guide to Ethical Principles and Practices
One Useful Thing: Guide to Which AI to Use
Google Course: Introduction to Generative AI
Google Course: Introduction to Large Language Models (LLM)
Sarah Silverman Suing OpenAI and Meta Over Copyright Infringement
RJI: Don’t have a newsroom policy for ChatGPT? Join the club!
The Workers at the Front Lines of the AI Revolution
Toward Guidelines for Guidelines on the Use of Generative AI in Newsrooms
The Atlantic: The ‘AI Apocalypse’ Is Just PR
RJI: The Art of Prompting: AI Science or Witchcraft?
Makkula Center for Applied Ethics: Ethical Questions About Generative AI
Poynter: How Someone Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake News Organization Website
Build ChatGPT-like Chatbots With Customized Knowledge for Your Websites, Using Simple Programming
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