AI Journalism

Getting News from Social Media

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Article in The Guardian by Michael Savage, 6/16/25

Headline:  “Social media overtakes TV as main source of news in US, analysis finds”

Subhead:  “Global study shows 54% of Americans receive news from social media, while the UK has highest proportion of news avoiders at 46%”

“Social media has overtaken television as a source of news in the US for the first time, according to a comprehensive analysis of media consumption confirming the rapid rise of “news influencers”.

“In a watershed moment for the US media, 54% of Americans said they received news from social media, according to the research carried out after President Trump’s second inauguration. Half said they sourced news from the once all-powerful TV networks. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/17/social-media-overtakes-tv-as-main-source-of-news-in-us-analysis-finds

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Article in Poynter by Angela Fu, 6/16/25

Headline:  “Americans turn to social media and video for news more than any other source”

Subhead:  “A new Reuters Institute report also found that 7% of Americans use AI chatbots to access news”

“Social media and video networks have overtaken television to become the most widely used source of news among Americans, according to a new Reuters Institute report.

“In a survey conducted at the end of January and beginning of February, 54% of Americans said they had accessed news via social and video networks within the past week. TV and online news sites were the next most common sources, with roughly half of respondents saying they had gotten news from those media. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/where-do-americans-get-news/

 

 

 

Robot Journalists Need Chance?

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Article in Poynter, 6/9/25

Headline:  “AI is giving local news a second chance. Will it be ready this time?”

Subhead:  “Journalism professor Tom Rosenstiel urges newsrooms to avoid the mistakes of the internet era and build smarter, more useful AI tools”

“In April 2024, the Local News Initiative, in conjunction with the Knight Lab at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Communications and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA, published a report titled, ‘Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Existential Threat?’

“Based on discussions with more than 25 local news and AI experts worldwide, the report explored the potential benefits and perils presented by this revolutionary technology. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2025/ai-impact-on-local-newsrooms/

AI Journalism / Ghost Books

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Article in Slashdot by Anonymous, 6/2/25

Headline:  “Business Insider Recommended Nonexistent Books To Staff As It Leans Into AI”

“Business Insider announced this week that it wants staff to better incorporate AI into its journalism. But less than a year ago, the company had to quietly apologize to some staff for accidentally recommending that they read books that did not appear to exist but instead may have been generated by AI. . .”

“. . .But a few were unfamiliar to staff. Simply Target: A CEO’s Lessons in a Turbulent Time and Transforming an Iconic Brand by former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel was nowhere to be found. Neither was Jensen Huang: the Founder of Nvidia, which was supposedly published by the company Charles River Editors in 2019. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/1537210/business-insider-recommended-nonexistent-books-to-staff-as-it-leans-into-ai

Learn About AI Generated Journalism

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Article in Poynter by Jennifer Orsi, 5/29/25

Headline:  “Journalists are using AI. They should be talking to their audience about it.”

Subhead:  “A new toolkit from Poynter’s MediaWise, in collaboration with AP, aims to make that easier, reduce consumer anxiety through AI literacy”

“Even as newsrooms are increasingly using the power of artificial intelligence in their reporting, research is telling them that AI makes their audience anxious and worried. It’s a potentially bad combination for audience trust — which isn’t so hot to begin with.

“To help, MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative that focuses on online information, has created new tools for newsrooms to talk with their audiences about AI, both for ethical transparency and to demystify how AI is used. The effort was funded by Microsoft and was produced in collaboration with The Associated Press. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/from-the-institute/2025/journalists-are-using-ai-they-should-be-talking-to-their-audience-about-it-microsoft-associated-press/

Read this book. . .Re ths book . . .R th buk. .

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 5/21/25

Headline: “Opinion | How two major newspapers published a summer reading list with books that don’t exist”

Subhead: “Of the 15 books in a list published by the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, only five were real. The culprit? AI, of course.”

“A popular feature that you’re likely to see in a major metropolitan newspaper this time of year is a summer reading list. . .”

“And if you are a reader of the Chicago Sun-Times or The Philadelphia Inquirer, you recently saw such a syndicated list of new books by famous authors, including Percival Everett, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Andy Weir, who wrote “The Martian.”

One problem: The authors are real, but the books they supposedly wrote are not. Turns out, the list was generated by artificial intelligence. Of the 15 books, only five are real. The rest? Made up by AI. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/chicago-sun-times-summer-reading-list-ai/