No full stop — What journalism must carry into the year ahead

In this collection of essays, editors, reporters, and media innovators from iMEdD’s network reflect on what journalism must carry into the year ahead.
What is AI slop?

A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content.
A publicly available training on investigating AI without fear

Pulitzer Center launched a publicly available online AI program helping journalists understand technological evolution around AI.
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models

Tech giants quietly tapped major news outlets’ YouTube videos to build expansive AI training sets, raising questions over consent.
Reporter’s guide to detecting AI-generated content

A practical guide for journalists to counter AI-driven misinformation, speeding up fact-checking workflows and strengthening newsroom verification strategies.
“It’s a feature, not a bug” – How journalists can spot and mitigate AI bias

Three years after ChatGPT’s debut, nearly half of newsrooms use AI despite ethical concerns, reflecting evolving attitudes across journalism and academia.
Nick Diakopoulos: Artificial intelligence and journalism beyond the hype

Professor Nick Diakopoulos speaks to iMEdD about how generative artificial intelligence is affecting newsrooms and journalism’s comparative advantage in content production. He comments on the competitive pressures media face in distribution and sees the opportunity for trust in journalism as still very much alive.
What we took away from this year’s European Data & Computational Journalism Conference

We attended the 5th European Conference on Data Journalism and Computational Journalism, held for the first time in Athens. Here, we gather some of the key takeaways.

