Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Julie Gerstein and Margaret Sullivan, 6/26/25
Headline: “Can AI Tools Meet Journalistic Standards?
Subhead: “So far, the results are spotty.”
“Tech companies promise that AI tools can do more with less—so perhaps they can help news outlets survive declining subscription sales and evaporating advertising revenue. Certainly, AI is being used effectively by some journalists to crunch numbers at lightning speed and make sense of vast databases. . .”
But more than two years after the public release of large language models (LLMs), the promise that the media industry might benefit from AI seems unlikely to bear out, or at least not fully. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/can-ai-tools-meet-journalistic-standards.php
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Article in Poynter by Jennifer Orsi, 6/26/25
Headline: “A lot has changed since we created AI ethics guidelines for newsrooms. Here’s what you need to know now”
Subhead: “We’ve updated Poynter’s ‘starter kit’ for newsrooms to build AI policies,
including sections for visual journalists and product teams”
“More than a year ago, the Poynter Institute published a ‘starter kit’ for newsrooms to create their own ethics policies for using artificial intelligence in their journalism. AI use in newsrooms has grown swiftly since then — and gotten more complex — and the team behind the starter kit has just published a new update, adding more information for visual journalism and for those developing products in newsrooms. . .”
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