My latest on how the Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government shutdown also impact hospitals' resilience to climate change. www.eenews.net/articles/hos...

Solidarity Forever--No slop in our shop!

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S., aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots, internal documents show.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

“You say you want to fight cancer, but at the same time you’re creating these situations where you are actually elevating the risk of cancer." My latest for @eenews.bsky.social on how pollution rollbacks in the name of AI will impact health subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards. Tell POLITICO management to follow it's own rules for accurate, ethical journalism and sign our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Nightmare fuel of the day. Incredible reporting.

A good ad on the DC Metro

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

“We had this state-of-the-art facility, and they canceled the lease." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

ICE is arresting contract firefighters on active wildfires. This is especially significant for the fire workforce in the PNW because of the heavy reliance on contract workforce. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

20 years ago, the WHO published a pair of reports estimating the number of annual deaths attributable to climate change. I was fascinated to learn that there have been few attempts since to revisit this fundamental question about the impact of global warming on humanity -- until now. The story:

She is standing in front of a structure built by enslaved people.

NEW: @arielwittenberg.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into a burgeoning nationwide movement to improve heat-related warnings and save lives. These efforts have been largely spearheaded by local officials/meteorologists - and Trump's cuts may threaten to stifle them. www.eenews.net/articles/hea...

The gear most volunteer fire departments have is not designed for wildfires, but for the calls they usually take. It can keep flames and smoke out during a house fire, but isn't breathable or nimble when trekking through the woods in summer heat. #Newfoundland #wildfires www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this is so depressing (h/t @benjaminharnett.com) www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

AI is going to transform journalism! (I’m going to create lower editorial standards and claim it’s not actually journalism in order to justify the actual output) www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

God, I love local news so much. 🍕 www.app.com/story/money/...

“If it doesn’t align with reality, why are we putting Politico’s name on it?” —Me Proud of the work we’re doing @pen-guild.bsky.social to stand up for good journalism in the age of AI

A story designed to break my heart specifically: "The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would have required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom."

Cool www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/s...

🚨NEW: We have a deal at The Hill! After three years, journalists @thehill.com voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement, securing increases in pay, vacation time, family leave and more. newsguild.org/journalists-...

There's much more in the piece, with commentary from the great @mattdpearce.com, @arielwittenberg.bsky.social, @mishal-khan.bsky.social, and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, who touched on this dynamic in the barnburner linked below. In sum, the fight over AI in journalism is just beginning to erupt.

Legislators in New York have proposed the FAIR act, which would provide a raft of protections against AI abuse in journalism—bosses would be required by law to tell staff about AI products, disclose to consumers when they're using AI, and so on. Given NY's centrality to US media, it could be big.

This work, of safeguarding journalism from bosses who are all-in on AI, and see it as a way to automate and speed up work, dodge accountability, and show investors they're on the cutting edge, will largely fall to journalists themselves, and their unions. It may get some help from New York, too.

This clash reflects a growing struggle over AI in journalism, between executives and managers eager to embrace AI, and journalists on the ground forced to comply with those directives while protecting—and doing—their work.

The very next week, the CEO of Axel Springer, Politico's parent company, declared that it would be mandatory for employees at all of his companies, journalists included, to use AI.

Now, Politico journalists are fighting back. In one of the first such cases of the AI era, staffers are taking their bosses to arbitration over AI use that violates their contract and puts journalists' work and reputation at risk. They issued the following petition asking for support:

None of this was supposed to happen. Politico's union, the PEN Guild, had bargained for—and, in 2024, won—some common sense protections from bosses' AI use. Their contract stipulated that management had to give them 60 days notice of any new AI use that would impact their work. They got one hour.

Undeterred, Politico teamed up with an AI company to release an AI "report builder" that premium subscribers can use to generate bespoke reports, drawing ostensibly from archives of its reporters' work. The report builder frequently makes egregious errors and invents organizations that do not exist.

The mistake-ridden and standards-violating posts were simply deleted—without the sort of corrections that would be mandatory if such errors were made by any human staffer.

The AI quickly misspelled Kamala Harris's mother's name, and produced other dubious content. Politico management rolled out the AI *again* during the vice presidential debates. When Vance called migrants "illegal immigrants" the AI bot printed it—a term forbidden by Politico editorial standards.

Politico's editorial staff was surprised for a number of reasons: They had been told only an hour before it was launched, in the middle of the Democratic National Convention, and placed on prime homepage real estate—real estate normally occupied by stories and reports written by humans.

Great report from Brian on how Politico's journalists are taking the lead in a larger industry-wide fight over AI in the newsroom. I broke the story about their legal fight with management back in May, for additional context: www.wired.com/story/politi...

During two of the year's biggest news events, Politico reporters watched in surprise as management installed an AI bot atop the homepage—openly violating a deal with staff. It promptly made embarrassing errors and violated editorial standards. No corrections were issued.

Today, EPA Admin Lee Zeldin writes in FOX that he's going to only follow 'minimum requirements' for public participation in AI-related permits www.foxnews.com/opinion/lee-...

Yesterday, enviro groups appealed a Clean Air Act permit for xAI, arguing regulators didn't adequately address public comments. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Here we go! 💪🏼

Help us stand up for ethics in journalism and sign our petition!

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