ChatGPT with pop-up telling users they can ‘search the web for direct answers and links to trusted sources’. Picture: Shutterstock/Tada Images The company behind ChatGPT has no plans to share …
Computational Journalism Watch
Coverage of AI ethics, newsroom tooling, and investigative data practices.
Google’s London office in King’s Cross. Picture: Shutterstock/Pajor Pawel Full Fact has been “heartened” by the response of potential new funders and individuals donating money since Google cut off …
Destruction in the Dahyeh suburb of Beiruit, Lebanon on 6 March 2026. Picture: Shutterstock/madhdi313 French-language Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour has seen a 9% increase in subscriptions since …
Google AI Overviews shown in front of a Google webpage. Picture: Shutterstock/DIA TV In a world first, UK regulators today told Google to give publishers control over how their content is surfaced in …
SPUR logo AI news licensing standards coalition SPUR has added almost 20 publisher members in a major international expansion of its work. SPUR (the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition) …
There’s no shortage of digital tools to track, analyze, and visualize data. In newsrooms, we often lean on Datawrapper, Excel, R, Python, or other high-powered and occasionally automated workflows. …
Picture: Pat Bagley/Salt Lake Tribune Utah-based newspaper The Salt Lake Tribune has gambled a third of its revenue by ditching its paywall and instead offering paying readers membership tiers which …
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Positive News tries to rethink everything as it asks audience what they care about
Positive News values survey promo and magazine collage Positive News has launched a major project to understand what its readers care about. The UK-based outlet , which promises “rigorous journalism …
Two screenshots from SaySo: left, the current events topic page, right, the homepage with a video from @jesschatsnews and a Guardian source link underneath A new app showcasing creator-led video news …
Newsworks message is redacted to mimic effect of blocklists Six years ago, as the global pandemic swept the globe journalism became more important than ever. But while newsbrands were seeing a boom …
George Grist, new chief customer officer at Reach. Picture: Reach Reach has named George Grist as its first chief customer officer under CEO Piers North to lead a new Customer division charged with …
Luke Bradley-Jones, president of The Economist, speaking on stage at Press Gazette’s Future of Media Technology Conference on 11 September 2025. Picture: ASV Photography for Press Gazette The …
UK and US news outlets have fallen victim to an AI -generated hoax after publishing reports that Thai police dressed in drag to arrest a drug dealer. The story originated on the Facebook page of Tha …
Michael Corn, NewsNation’s president of programming and specials, and promo images for two NewsNation podcasts: Reality Check with Ross Coulthart and the new spinoff Unreported with Meagan Medick. …
Laurie Segall in action working on Mr Deepfakes investigation (L), Paris Hilton and Segall poster for series (R). Picture: Mostly Human Media Former CNN editor-at-large and technology correspondent …
Artwork for Simon Calder’s new Telegraph podcast Travel journalist Simon Calder is leaving The Independent after 32 years to join The Telegraph . Calder will become travel correspondent at The …
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IPSO: Times OK to say BBC ignored Bill Gates climate U-turn despite Today coverage
Bill Gates pictured in October 2023. Picture: Shutterstock/Alexandros Michailidis The Times was entitled to say in a leader column that the BBC produced “no coverage” of an intervention by Bill Gates …
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News diary 1-7 June: Tube strikes, Fifa confirms World Cup squads, Michelle Obama at SXSW London
Picture: Kovop/Shutterstock London Underground drivers are set to strike on Tuesday and Thursday this week in the second phase of industrial action this year. Both strikes will take place for 24 …
This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique. You can read Jeune Afrique’s article in French here . Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets, as well as damage …
A “river of blood” was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.” Another told the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) how 20 relatives, …
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‘Scamming’ landlord libel claim thrown out as Lammy promises legislation on SLAPPs
Freelance journalist Cormac Kehoe and Mill Media founder Joshi Herrmann outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Picture: Mill Media A libel claim brought against local news publisher Mill …
Newbury Today story that resulted in Facebook restrictions Facebook has restricted a UK local newsbrand from monetising its content or reaching new people on the platform after it posted a court …
A mock up of The Canary’s front page and sports page, set to soft launch in 6,500 newsagents on 26 May. Picture: The Canary The Canary is launching a daily weekday national newspaper after an …
Helen Dalley, Luke Beardsworth, Mike Harris, Ed Walker and James Routledge of The Lead and The Knot. Picture: Submitted The Lead, which runs a growing regional newsletter network, has bought …
James Murdoch James Murdoch is buying Vox, New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network via his private holding company Lupa Systems. Vox Media chief executive Jim Bankoff will lead a new …