Archives: 2026

Andrew DeckAugust 12, 2026
Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature
The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun, and NHK have all signed onto the Originator Profile standard.
Andrew DeckAugust 11, 2026
The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age
Avner KantorAugust 11, 2026
We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information
The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation.
Hanaa' TameezAugust 10, 2026
“An inherent conflict of interest”: More than 800 USA Today Co. employees want the company to end its new Palantir partnership
“Part of the problem is that we know very, very little about how Palantir’s software is going to be used.”
Hanaa' TameezAugust 6, 2026
America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
Laura Hazard OwenAugust 6, 2026
Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s anti-woke AI Wikipedia, seems to have stopped updating in April
Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith and Tomás DoddsAugust 6, 2026
A new book looks at how AI is rewiring the newsroom, for better and worse
AI is already helping reshape journalistic practices across five stages of news production: coming up with story ideas, sourcing information, verifying content, telling stories, and distributing news.
Joshua BentonAugust 5, 2026
Is Americans’ declining trust in media driven by political messaging?
A massive analysis of every speech given on the floors of Congress between 1939 and 2023 finds that criticism of the news media is remarkably tied to specific partisan interests and historical moments.
The New York Times building facade
Hanaa' TameezAugust 5, 2026
Even The New York Times “isn’t immune” to declining search traffic — one reason it’s leaning into video
Joshua BentonAugust 3, 2026
U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago
Andrew DeckAugust 3, 2026
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
Andrew DeckJuly 30, 2026
AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds
Sophie CulpepperJuly 30, 2026
Readers turned to these local newspapers for real-time safety updates and weekend reads
The Philadelphia Inquirer launched Inquirer Weekend in April, while readers looked to The Orange County Register’s coverage when a chemical tank was at threat of exploding in May.
Neel DhaneshaJuly 29, 2026
Collaborations and primary elections boosted traffic to public media sites this quarter
“If I have any takeaway, it’s really just the importance of headlines that answer the question, ‘Why does this matter? Why should I care?'”
Erik P. Bucy and Milad Jalalian EbrahimiJuly 29, 2026
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use
In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.
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