Leaders said Nota News was an experiment not meant to be seen by readers. But some of the company’s actions conflict with that. A Sept. 16 Nota press release touts the initiative, which included Microsoft, TollBit and BizBudding’s Springwire as partners. The release listed URLs of all 11 sites.

The New York Times has dropped a freelance journalist after discovering he used AI to help write a book review that pulled sections of a review of the same book in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

If someone expects you to conjure up a new AI tool out of thin air, share these numbers for how much other newsrooms spent on their AI projects: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-to-budge...

Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster dictionary are suing OpenAI for taking their content and generating AI summaries of copyrighted works which they say compete with their publications. techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/m...

The @propublicaguild.org's vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...

Google is experimenting with changing headlines in search results Google said the aim is to "identify content on a page that would be a useful and relevant title to a users’ query" www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

"ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom." www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/chat...

Mediahuis journalist Menno Van Den Bos emailed me to say he noticed a report about @towcenter.bsky.social ‘s Journalism 2050 project written by Dutch editor Peter Vandermeersch contained multiple errors- false attribution, and a quote (by me) I didn’t say… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

In an op-ed in the FT, French AI startup Mistral cofounder and CEO Arthur Mensch proposes "a revenue-based levy that would be applied to all commercial providers placing AI models on the market or putting them into service in Europe, reflecting their use of content publicly available online."

4. On the journalistic sector as a whole, where trust is already under pressure and such mistakes further fuel doubts about control, care, and transparency. Full article, in Dutch: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... Reporting by @mennovdbos.bsky.social

2. On the misquoted experts, whose names become linked to words they never said – and that continue to circulate via LLMs. 3. On Mediahuis, the organization where he played a key role for many years.

Interview in NRC on bad AI use in journalism[In Dutch] Ex-editor-in-chief, Peter Vandermeersch is currently “Fellow Journalism & Society” @ Mediahuis. In that role, he published dozens of fictitious quotes attributed to real experts. Mediahuis has temporarily suspended him www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Medium have just announced they have added an option where you can tell AI companies your preference for training on your writing. medium.com/blog/writers...

The UK government has released its progress report on AI and copyright assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69ba69...

Thanks to @samgreengard.bsky.social for linking to my story on how newsrooms are using generative AI to monitor public meetings. cacm.acm.org/news/ai-rewr... generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-genai-to...

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

GenAI might be good for the news industry, argues @shuwei.bsky.social. She says it might take us from - scarcity to abundance - human audience to machine audience - articles to liquid information - attention to intention reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/informa...

The problem with getting AI to write for you: “Now you don’t get to do the thing that you enjoy”. sachnishal.bsky.social #nicar2026

UK publishers are banding together to create standards for responsible AI—amid Anthropic’s stark reminders of its potential for harm. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/s...

The Washington Post has signed a multi-year deal for Veritone's content licensing solution to represent the newsbrand's video content for global licensing opportunities www.veritone.com/newsroom/pre...

News Corp signed a multi-year deal with Meta, allowing it to train on and retrieve its US and UK content tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

Reuters used Gemini to extract data from public documents. They found that some prisons are as hot as 104F. They spent $2000. Before AI, for an equivalent project they hired a data entry company to extract data and spent $40,000 www.reuters.com/podcasts/hea...

“The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system.”

This is the most important new piece of information from @willoremus.com and @scottnover.bsky.social's story about Cleveland Plain Dealer using AI. Using AI to write a first draft based on reporters' notes is VERY different to using it to write a first draft based on a press release.

"Quinn has implemented a suite of AI tools with various purposes: transcribing local government meetings, scraping municipal websites for story leads, cleaning up typos in story drafts, suggesting headlines and helping reporters draft follow-ups to articles they’ve already written."

Reach has signed a deal for its content to be used in Amazon’s Nova AI model and Alexa assistant with compensation based on usage It is separately considering legal action against OpenAI, Press Gazette understands pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...

Press Gazette has used IdentifAI to determine that two journalists’ byline pictures are AI generated and used Pangram to determine their text bios were AI generated

A lawsuit has been launched against OpenAI in Denmark on behalf of news publishers whose work was believed to have been used to train ChatGPT pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...

Why I think this story is important: The news industry is experiencing an existential crisis. We do not yet know if it will be financially viable to create news in the future. This is important for society as that may mean a radical reduction in accurate info about changes in your world.

“... without collective leverage or a shared product-level offering (e.g., structured API access with usage-based compensation), SPUR might perhaps influence the market, but I doubt it will reshape it.” @ezraeeman.bsky.social warns of limits to SPUR coalition

The FT, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC and Sky News have founded SPUR: the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition.

New from CNTI: "Newsroom Policies for AI in Journalism" Our briefing synthesized 30 research papers about AI governance in newsrooms. One key takeaway: Newsroom policies on new technologies tend to emphasize principles & values but don't always offer guidance. Read more: cnti.org/reports/news...

NEW on @indicator.media: I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content. You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.

Someone said that they are opening a new gallery in Chicago and shared their website. Will keep their name out of it as I wish them the best of luck but it looks like they may have vibe coded their website. It’s a mess.

“scrapping the promise to not release AI models if Anthropic can’t guarantee proper risk mitigations in advance.”

"Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME."

Really early on in my career I worked on a social network called Action Network which didn’t survive. Here was the crux… you have an issue in your local neighbourhood, you write a note, that note goes on your local neighbourhood’s noticeboard AND the issue’s noticeboard. Would be cool to make now.

I just tried to make a NotebookLM of news organizations' AI policies and it was basically impossible because so were behind paywalls.

On that new device we have been waiting for from Jony Ive... Some are reporting that it is a smart speaker with a camera that recognises faces.

Can AI determine newsworthiness? I don't believe it can. I am happy to be proved wrong. Either way, if you are building an AI news prototype check where the people on your team lie regarding this assumption.

Miami Herald data reporter @shirsho.bsky.social, told the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social that they are downloading each document from the Epstein Files onto Google’s Pinpoint, which offers strong optical character recognition, transcription and searchable AI features

I used @betterimagesofai.bsky.social for the first time for my latest article.

“There are all sorts of things to worry about with Gen AI and I think copyright’s the wrong tool to fix most of them. Lots of people are trying to use copyright because it’s there." Professor Jessica Litman on AI on the uncertainty over AI Copyright: generative-ai-newsroom.com/lawyers-warn...

Shout out to @charlottetobitt.bsky.social from @pressgazette.co.uk and @klaudia.bsky.social from @towcenter.bsky.social who are monitoring AI copyright cases. These were tremendously helpful in researching my latest article: generative-ai-newsroom.com/lawyers-warn...

The ambiguity over what AI will be capable of (or even what it is capable of now) must be very challenging for newsroom leaders or indeed all leaders or indeed everyone. @ginaskchua.bsky.social highlights a recent debate around this.

I don’t suppose anyone has made a NotebookLM notebook of all the news organizations’ AI policies?

This editor’s column has been heavily discussed this week within the AI -newsroom world. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

Overheard student coming out of a lecture: “AI has ruined cheating on essays because before you could just pay someone to write your essay but now if you do that you have no guarantee they haven’t just used AI.”