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Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)

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AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.
News•Feb 26, 2026

AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.

Researchers at Northwestern’s GAIN initiative and the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation found that news readers overwhelmingly prefer AI chatbots and summarization tools over direct visits to publisher sites, valuing speed, perceived neutrality, and control. Participants acknowledge the answers are imperfect but accept the trade‑off for convenience. The studies also reveal AI’s propensity to misattribute sources, fabricate links, and flatten source credibility, especially when publishers block crawlers. Nonetheless, users treat AI as a supplement, turning to trusted outlets for deeper or high‑stakes reporting.

By Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News
News•Feb 25, 2026

In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News

Cleveland.com’s editor Chris Quinn created an AI rewrite desk, hiring Joshua Newman to use an in‑house ChatGPT to turn reporters’ notes into polished stories, which humans then fact‑check. The experiment has kept story volume steady while giving reporters an extra...

By Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
The Voice of the Uyghur Post
News•Feb 24, 2026

The Voice of the Uyghur Post

The Uyghur Post, launched by activist Tahir Imin last November, is one of the few Uyghur‑language news sites, delivering daily stories and a weekly podcast to a diaspora audience of roughly 30,000 monthly readers. It was created to fill the...

By Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
Nexstar to Acquire Tegna for $3.54B
Deals•Feb 23, 2026

Nexstar to Acquire Tegna for $3.54B

Nexstar Media Group announced it has agreed to acquire Tegna in a $3.54 billion transaction, pending FCC approval. The merger would combine two of the largest broadcast station owners, potentially reaching about 80 percent of U.S. households. The deal is expected to...

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What We Need to Know
News•Feb 20, 2026

What We Need to Know

In this episode, host Susie Banikarim examines three urgent media‑driven crises: the catastrophic humanitarian emergency in Sudan and the under‑reporting that persists despite on‑the‑ground reporting by Ann Curry; the backlash and confusion sparked by Elizabeth Bruenig’s fictional second‑person measles narrative...

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Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future
Podcast•Feb 19, 2026•0 min

Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future

In this episode of Journalism 2050, host Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin discuss the survival of journalism with two innovators: Vanan Murugesan of the nonprofit Sahan Journal and Joshi Herrmann of the subscription‑based Mill Media. The conversation contrasts nonprofit grant funding...

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Ali Breland on Why It’s Important to Cover the Online Far Right
News•Feb 18, 2026

Ali Breland on Why It’s Important to Cover the Online Far Right

In this episode, Ivan L. Nagy talks with Atlantic staff writer Ali Breland about the growing entanglement of the online far‑right with mainstream politics under Trump. Breland explains how figures like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate and the viral “Clavicular” streamer illustrate a shift...

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Elbowing In
News•Feb 17, 2026

Elbowing In

The episode examines a lawsuit filed by three right‑wing media figures—podcaster Brandi Kruse, talk‑radio host Ari Hoffman, and Discovery Institute fellow Jonathan Choe—seeking permanent press passes and a revamp of Washington’s statehouse credentialing rules. It outlines how the Capitol Correspondents Association ceded credentialing...

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You’ve Got Jmail
News•Feb 13, 2026

You’ve Got Jmail

The episode explores Jmail, a web tool that lets users browse Jeffrey Epstein’s email archive in a Gmail‑like interface, created by AI programmer Luke Igel and developer Riley Walz to make the massive DOJ data dump hyper‑legible. Igel discusses how AI enabled...

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Grok Is Now Editing Itself
News•Feb 12, 2026

Grok Is Now Editing Itself

The episode examines Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI‑generated Wikipedia alternative, and reveals that its chatbot Grok has become the primary editor, submitting and approving over three‑quarters of all suggested changes. Analysis by the Tow Center shows Grok’s self‑editing surged in December,...

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