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Andrew Deck

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Reporting on AI and journalism for @NiemanLab.org at Harvard. Previously covering tech @restofworld.org Bylines: @thenation.com @popularmechanics @japantimes.co.jp Signal: andrewdeck.01

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OpenAI has committed $10 million to fund the next cohort of the @lenfestinstitute.org's AI fellowship. So far, the program has embedded AI engineers in big metro newspapers across the U.S. Now, Lenfest is eyeing local TV news and newsrooms covering statehouses. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/open...
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OpenAI doubles support for Lenfest’s AI and local news fellowships
With an additional $10 million in program funding, the Lenfest Institute will consider new applicants in local TV news and statewide public service journalism.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Arbiter uses LLMs and agents to pull posts from social media and analyze them at scale. It's part of a new crop of AI tools trying to fill the void left by CrowdTangle for reporting on disinformation. I spoke to the founders about building for journalists first. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/two-...
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Two years ago, Meta killed CrowdTangle. Can a new AI tool fill the void?
Arbiter uses large language models and AI agents to help journalists see the next harmful narrative on social media before it peaks.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I dug into the DOJ’s letter yesterday backing OpenAI in its ongoing copyright litigation with The New York Times. One of the strangest arguments: a ruling in favor of the Times would actually hurt small and independent news publishers. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/trum...
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Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms
The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to use copyrighted content.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 02/09/2026
The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to use copyrighted content. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/trum...
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Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms
The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to use copyrighted content.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I took a look at Backstory, an experimental tool from Google DeepMind that automates parts of the image verification process. “Backstory takes an initial process that would take you 50 minutes, and it can shrink it down to three," @mikecaulfield.bsky.social told me. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/goog...
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Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Japanese news outlets have launched a new web standard to fight AI-generated imposter sites. Originator Profile (OP) cryptographically signs news articles to authenticate them. Yomiuri Shimbun+Asahi Shimbun have already integrated OP into their CMS. @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/japa...
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Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature
The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun, and NHK have all signed onto the Originator Profile standard.
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Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Nice write up of some of the AI-oriented changes to the SPJ code of ethics by @andrewdeck.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age
On Monday, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) dropped new proposed revisions to its code of ethics — the first revision to one of the most-cited media ethics standards in the country since ...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This year, five Pulitzer winners and three finalists disclosed AI use to the judges. That's the most since the disclosure requirement was added in 2024. I asked several of the reporters behind these stories how they brought LLMs and other AI tools into their work. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...
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A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
NEW: At least five media companies are using algorithmic pricing to decide how much news subscribers should pay. If you've been told that your news subscription price was determined by an algorithm using your personal data, please take the survey at the end: www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/this...
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“This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emails
Outlets like Wired, NJ.com, and The Wall Street Journal are setting renewal prices just for you — and being forced to disclose it.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Business Insider was once synonymous with news aggregation. But in the AI search era, it's turned its back on aggregation altogether. I sat down with editor-in-chief Jamie Heller to learn how she's trying to reshape the publication to break its own news. www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/busi...
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Business Insider’s big bet against aggregation
Facing repeated layoffs and traffic declines, Business Insider turns its back on the aggregation business it pioneered.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 12/07/2026
“Every piece of DNA extracted puts a title on a book of life, and every one of these books is the largest book by a very big magnitude than the longest book ever written by a human. I’m depressed to think about burning the books of life without ever reading them.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/ther...
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There are millions of undiscovered species on Earth. Vox is trying to find one.
"It’s an indication of how unexplored our world is. If you can find a new species in New York City, think how many more there must be out there."
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fact-checkers around the world face major funding cuts from USAID and Meta. Meanwhile, new threats loom, including attempts to influence AI products through what some have dubbed "LLM poisoning." My report from the GlobalFact conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/at-g...
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Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026
Hundreds gathered in Lithuania to discuss Russian influence operations, “LLM poisoning," and how to survive a funding crisis.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 26/06/2026
A new partnership between Beehiiv and Cloudflare gives independent journalists a suite of tools to control which AI crawlers are scraping their work. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/beeh...
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Beehiiv’s new Cloudflare partnership gives indie journalists a new level of control over AI crawlers
Over the past year, major news publishers have taken aggressive anti-scraping measures to curb the rise of AI crawlers. So far, most of these backend interventions have been out of reach for…
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
After McClatchy forced reporters at the Centre Daily Times to add their bylines to AI-generated articles, the Pennsylvania newspaper decided to unionize. The NewsGuild-CWA says its their first union drive in the country due to concerns about newsroom AI adoption. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-...
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The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool
The local Pennsylvania outlet is the first newsroom under The NewsGuild-CWA to unionize in response to AI adoption.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Politico has agreed to shut down two AI editorial tools that were at the heart of a union arbitration it lost in November, according to its newsroom guild. This was a major test for AI contract terms, which are now in more than 60 media contracts across the U.S. www.pen-guild.org/news/victory...
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VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration — PEN Guild
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2026 Media Contacts: Kathleen Floyd, WBNG Communications — kfloyd@wbng.org PEN Guild — politicoeenewsguild@gmail.com WASHINGTON– The POLITICO and E&E N...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: More than 340 U.S. local news outlets are restricting Internet Archive access. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I mapped out the full list, showing just how dire this trend is for the future of local news archives. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...
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More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: More than 340 local U.S. news outlets are limiting @archive.org's access to their journalism. @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I have mapped out what at looks like across the country: www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...
Map of the United States titled “Which local news outlets are restricting the Internet Archive?” with colored dots showing the locations of 342 local news sites owned by at least 17 companies that block one or more Internet Archive crawling bots. A legend at the top matches colors to owners, including Advance Local, The Business Journals, Fox Corporation, McClatchy, MediaNews Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Publishing, USA Today, and “Other.” Dots cluster heavily in the Northeast, upper Midwest, Southeast, and along the West Coast, with labeled cities such as Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Washington D.C., New York, and Boston highlighted near concentrations of sites. A note at the bottom credits the map to Andrew Deck and Hanaa’ Tameez for Nieman Lab, created with Datawrapper.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yesterday, Semafor published an AI-assisted conference report based on an analysis of hundreds of session transcripts. "[Our audience] expects really high-quality analysis and whatever tool we’re using to get there is secondary," @semaforben.bsky.social told me. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/sema...
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Semafor’s new AI tool helped boil down its entire flagship conference into nine takeaways
Semafor Intelligence leans on embedding models to distill hundreds of session transcripts into key insights.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
South American investigative journalists pioneered the use of satellite data and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon. Now, geospatial foundation models are making those same methods accessible to journalists around the world. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/geos...
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Geospatial AI is reinventing the rainforest beat
Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Great to join @marketplace.org today! Talked about the reporting that @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I have done on why news publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
In efforts to block AI companies' web crawlers, publishers are also not allowing Wayback Machine to take snapshots of their content, fearing that it could later be scraped from the pages of the archiv...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.” Also: it misquotes the Pope. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.
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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied. Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...
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Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving
In January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed th...
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 15/04/2026
Earlier this year, Lab broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Now, journalists are pushing for news publishers to lift the restrictions. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...
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Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving
In January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed…
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Thanks @knibbs.bsky.social for the shout! Earlier this year, @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I broke the story that major news publishers were blocking the Wayback Machine. Wired with a follow-up this week on the journalists and digital rights orgs pushing back against the decision.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections. I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...
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ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect "more concentrated conflicts" over AI in the news industry.
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"We are lucky that we are still alive, and we are lucky that we are able to speak with you, while we hope that one day you will all be able to come to Gaza and witness everything with your own eyes, and write about that with your own words and pens." niemanreports.org/lyons-award-...
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Palestinian Journalists Honored for Their Coverage and Courage - Nieman Reports
Shrouq Aila and Anas Baba receive Lyons Award, given by the 2026 Nieman Fellows, for reporting from Gaza while enduring the horrors of war
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I'm honored to be in this company, and deeply appreciative that @newhousesu.bsky.social chose to recognize a story that calls out the uncomfortable truth in our industry.
John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting
Hanaa’ Tameez, Nieman Lab: “From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline“
Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times: “Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama” (subscription required)
Josh Dzieza, The Verge: “How Wikipedia Survives While The Rest of The Internet Breaks” (subscription required)
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 01/04/2026
Excited to say I'm in great company here, along with @hanaatameez.bsky.social!
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 26/03/2026
Today, Meta's Oversight Board warned that the company's planned global expansion of Community Notes “poses significant human rights risks." www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/meta...
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Meta’s Oversight Board warns that “Community Notes” aren’t a proper substitute for fact-checking globally
On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled that “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for its…
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...
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ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections
The Guild has voted to walk off the job if ProPublica doesn’t agree to a ban on AI-related layoffs, as well as “just cause” for firings, seniority provisions during layoffs, and wage increases.
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEW: I talked to journalists and researchers about how OSINT was both helpful and hurtful in the aftermath coverage of El Mencho's killing in Mexico. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/afte...
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After Mexico’s most-wanted cartel leader was killed, OSINT helped fuel both clarity and confusion online
Many OSINT analysts are experts in their fields and take care to verify information before publishing, but even well-intentioned accounts may inject more noise than clarity into an already tense situa...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In the vacuum left by the DOJ's faulty Epstein Files search, journalists and engineers have stepped in to build alternatives for readers. "[When] people feel the government’s not being transparent, it’s even more important for media outlets to provide that service" www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/ai-p...
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AI-powered search is fueling a wave of Epstein Files transparency projects
Newsrooms have long used AI to sift through document dumps. Now that same tech is being used to build search tools for readers.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So proud of Adam and all the work he's done to get this project off the ground! Still so much important work ahead. You can support now by donating or signing up for when grant applications open down the line. necessary.foundation
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THE NECESSARY FOUNDATION
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Aubrey Clayton @aubreyclayton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Trump's outlandish numerical claims — like reducing drug prices by 600% — are a good reminder of the importance of math education as a civic virtue. I wrote about it in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/o...
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Opinion | The Trump White House Needs a Refresher on Basic Math
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I spoke to @sevendaysvt.bsky.social for their story on a local Vermont pub's undisclosed AI usage. Great details in this one, including this gem: "a supposed link to 'regional reporting' on the topic sent readers to an adults-only porn site." www.sevendaysvt.com/news/media-n...
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Compass Vermont Raises Questions About AI and the News
Evidence shows that the online news outlet’s stories are produced, at least in part, with undisclosed artificial intelligence.
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Read the original reporting by me and @andrewdeck.bsky.social here: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...
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Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows
"We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The New York Times is using LLMs to transcribe and summarize episodes of more than 80 podcasts that are part of the "manosphere." The resulting email digest lands in journalists' inboxes every morning. I spoke with @zachseward.com about the tool for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
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How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A new bill in the NY state legislature would require news orgs to label any content “substantially composed, authored, or created" with generative AI. It would also require that humans review that content before publication. More details @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-ne...
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A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patr...
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Sarah Scott Scire @sarahscire.com · 04/02/2026
from curiousity at acquisiton to the "democracy dies in darkness" days to "a complexifier for me" to mandates for the opinion section. @laurahazardowen.bsky.social made a timeline of Bezos statements about @washingtonpost.com. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/some...
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“Something I will be most proud of when I’m 90”: How Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post, and what’s changed
Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post with real curiosity, and the things he said were interesting and specific. Over time, that changed.
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 04/02/2026
I do not make this comparison lightly.
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Tyler Dukes @mtdukes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The folks at @niemanreports.org wrote up a panel I was fortunate to moderate on AI and journalism with @niemanfoundation.bsky.social alums @jaemark.co, Uli Köppen and Ron Stodghill. niemanreports.org/ai-research-...
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Journalism at an AI Inflection Point - Nieman Reports
As artificial intelligence moves into newsrooms, four Nieman Fellows weigh in on the technology’s promise, limits, and risks.
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Neel Dhanesha @neeldhanesha.com · 03/02/2026
Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
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Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one?
"If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
NEW: News publishers are limiting Internet Archive access to prevent AI crawlers from using the digital library as a backdoor to their content. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I confirmed The Guardian and The New York Times have put in place new restrictions. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
With "Web Guide," Google is testing AI rewrites of meta-descriptions in search. It's just the latest example of Google chipping away at publisher real estate. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/disc...
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Discover isn’t the only place Google is experimenting with AI-generated snippets
On Friday, The Verge’s Sean Hollister reported that Google is now calling AI-generated headlines in Discover a “feature,” not just an experiment. For several months now, Google has been rewriting hea...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I was in London last month for the first in-person JournalismAI Festival hosted by @polislse.bsky.social and the Google News Initiative. I wrote up a few of the highlights for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/news...
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News media is “becoming part of AI systems”: Notes from the JournalismAI Festival 2025
The London conference tackled topics like AI-assisted reporting, article personalization, and deepfake detection.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
NEW: Last week an arbitrator ruled that Politico management violated key AI terms in its union contract. The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...
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Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds
The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts. The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
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Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
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