News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

Google's AI-powered Search transformation threatens to reduce traffic to publishers, forcing journalists to adapt their content and distribution strategies for discoverability.

Campbell Brown, former Meta's news chief, shared insights on the diverging conversations between Silicon Valley and consumers regarding who controls the information AI provides, a critical issue for the news industry.

Digg is relaunching as an AI news aggregator, aiming to track influential voices and surface important news, which could significantly alter how news professionals conduct research and monitor trends.

Salesforce en croisade pour vendre son rêve d’entreprise agentique – A closer look at Salesforce’s push to redefine enterprise AI through agentic workflows and automation. Les vidéos générées par IA, nouveau cauchemar des modérateurs – Protais reports on the challenges AI-generated videos pose for online platforms, moderators and policymakers.

Heath sat down with me last week to showcase how he’s integrated Anthropic’s Claude Cowork into his journalistic process. The AI tool is connected to his Gmail, Google Calendar, Granola AI transcription service, and Notion notes. He’s also built a detailed skill—a custom set of instructions—to help Claude write in his style, including the “10 commandments” of writing like Alex Heath. The skill includes previous articles he’s written, instructions on how he likes his newsletters to be structured, and notes on his voice and writing style.

JournalismAI is a global initiative that aims to inform media organisations about the potential offered by AI-powered technologies.

While AI tools like HitPaw FotorPea, ChatGPT Plus, Midjourney, and Claid.ai produced decent results, they all had telltale flaws: botched hands, unnatural fringing, over-blurred backgrounds, and facial distortions. A $100 Fiverr Pro editor delivered work so seamless it could fool anyone — perfect lighting, flawless hair masking, and natural perspective.

Another news outlet in my sample has sped up production of its finance reporting by developing a system that combines machine learning and natural language processing to automate the process of analyzing and extracting key points from financial statements. An editor involved in building this system, which now operates largely autonomously, said: It gives our journalists the time to actually look at, say, contextual information, for example for a surprise announcement of a company.

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Much as robots have transformed ... cognitive labor to computers. In journalism, for instance, data mining systems alert reporters to potential news stories, while newsbots offer new ways for audiences to explore ...