Business Insider had massive layoffs in May after search engine hits went down badly. But they’d fix it — with AI! On Thursday afternoon, editor-in-chief Jamie Heller sent out the memo specifying precisely how to write by chatbot. [Status, paywalled; Verge] Journalists can — i.e., they’re expected to — write their first draft with a […]| Pivot to AI
If you want to get a good sense of the travails of the modern press, look no further than Politico’s recent writeup of SB 79, Senator Scott Wiener’s new bill to mandate upzoning around transit stops. Importantly, this isn’t because it’s a bad article but precisely because it’s a good article (and not just because … Continue reading "Bread and Circuses and Journalism"| Legal Planet
The Trump administration has made $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and has attacked the free press by filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, according to the ACLU, which argues that these actions violate the First Amendment.| Davis Vanguard
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:July 11, 2025 Media Contacts: Dylan Manshack, Comms, WBNG — dmanshack@wbng.org, 202-445-4033 PEN Guild — politicoeenewsguild@gmail.com WASHINGTON — Unionized journalists at POLITICO and E&E News will head to arbitration today in a consequential legal dispute over artificial intelligence. The hearing will determine whether POLITICO violated key protections around AI use that were secured … RELEASE: PEN Guild Heads to Arbitration Today Over POLITICO’s AI Violatio...| Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Politico, which repeatedly bashed Gamergate, received more than $8 million in USAID tax-payer money. But the Trump Admin just cut them off.| That Park Place
