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...

More than 340 local news sites across the US are now blocking or limiting the Internet Archive from preserving their stories, according to new analysis. Many are owned by major publishers including USA Today, McClatchy and Tribune Publishing www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...

I submitted an FOI request, and found out that the UK's Sovereign AI Fund doesn't check whether the companies it backs adhere to copyright law. Sov AI's Chair has said publicly that they will "only invest in companies that follow [copyright law]" - but we now know they don't check this. 🧵 1/6

When my former colleagues, journalists who work in breaking news, ask me whether they should be vibe coding, I say no. I tell them that they don't have the time and skills you need. I tell them that there are people out there trying to make money from selling an unrealistic dream.

I think some of the disconnect we have when people who aren't journalists make tools for journalists is that when they look at their job they assume they must have certain problems without taking into account their personality. Journalists I know LOVE scraping about working out what the context is.

I missed this at the time… the News/Media Alliance sent a letter to Rich Skrenta, Common Crawl’s executive director, to insist it stops scraping news sites without consent - arguing CC was enabling “widescale copyright infringement by AI developers”.

Condé Nast CEO says company now plans “as if search is zero” after years of Google updates and AI Overviews reduced publisher traffic, adding that search is expected to account for “single-digit percentage” of visits searchengineland.com/conde-nast-s...

Introducing the #JournalismAI Strategy Lab (previously the JournalismAI Academy) 👇 A free, 5-week online programme for journalists and media professionals ready to go beyond tools and start making informed decisions about how AI fits into their newsroom.

ElevenLabs was just sued by voice actors for allegedly training on recordings of their voices without permission 👀 www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...

Court Listener released an MCP server yesterday. H/T Scott Klein at @hackshackers.com

Freelance writers are happy with NY Times’ AI policy www.threads.com/@michaelidov...

Mediahuis has joined the SPUR coalition of major news organisations aiming to develop shared AI licensing standards for the industry It is now a key member alongside the FT, Guardian, Telegraph, Sky News and BBC. More members are expected to be announced soon. pressgazette.co.uk/news/mediahu...

This is a really interesting insight into how difficult it is to edit a novel when an author has used gen-AI to structure that novel.

Who has managed to use gen AI to make their video archive more searchable?

The @authorsguild.org & the @societyofauthors.bsky.social both now have 'human authored' schemes using the same logo to “help to identify the work of authors as being created with uniquely human skill and originality.” My new book is registered as Human Authored with The Authors Guild (#4198549).

Fellows of Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Journalism Fellowship Program made a NotebookLM of the talks at The International Journalism Festival in Perugia. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/821...

On my commute today I listened to the CEO of Bria, Yair Adato, on Media Copilot talk about how they have made generative AI models for a new "data economy" . Really recommend a listen for insight into where we might be headed.

The BBC has used an AI generated voice on this content. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Alas we can't have everything we want so I am not at the @journalismfestival.com #ijf26. So,colleagues in Perugia, if you hear of uses of generative AI that other newsrooms should copy or avoid then please tell me which panel it was mentioned on so I can watch back!

The Boston Globe told staff to stop using Nota’s AI tools after @poynterinstitute.bsky.social exposed "extensive plagiarism" on the Nota News sites. @angelanfu.bsky.social reports:

Looking to interview journalists at #ijf26 about what we can build for you. Please comment below or dm me if you're open to chatting 🙏 I'm here till Sunday and this is what I look like. Please come say hi if you see me milling about this beautiful town

I am only just now reading through the UK's local media action plan. Something relevant for those of us in the intersection of AI and news, is this: The government aims to support getting to a "healthier licensing ecosystem between AI developers and rightsholders".

I’ll be there. Give me a wave if you are going and let’s grab coffee!

The lawsuit challenging Grammarly's product which allows users to edit text “in the style” of identifiable journalists and scholars illustrates not need for new laws but the underappreciated breadth and aplicability of current law to generative AI, writes @profrothman.bsky.social.

Has any newsroom out here used NotebookLM as a collaborative research tool for the newsroom? I imagine: you have a long running story (eg Grenfell inquiry) and you are a 24 hour newsroom. Could the correspondent whose patch this is upload the best docs for the night shift breaking news journalists?

Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections. I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

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...