Business Insider and its ChatGPT writing guidelines
Oliver Darcy of Status writes about Business Insider and its new ChatGPT writing guidelines. Darcy writes, “On Thursday afternoon, Business Insider staffers received a long-awaited memo from editor in chief Jamie Heller, outlining the Axel Springer-owned outlet’s rules for using artificial intelligence. The guidelines had been eagerly anticipated since earlier this summer, when Mathias Döpfner, […]
Skift hires Lee to cover travel tech and artificial intelligence
Travel industry site Skift has hired Adriana Lee to cover travel technology and artificial intelligence. Previously, she covered tech and its impact on fashion and beauty at Women’s Wear Daily, and what everyone from the consumer to the developer needs to know at multiple tech sites, including ReadWrite and Techno Buffalo ES. Lee was also managing editor […]
Ghosh to cover AI for Bloomberg
Agnee Ghosh is covering artificial intelligence for Bloomberg News. Her work is being supported by the Tarbell Center for Artificial Intelligence Journalism. Ghosh is a recent graduate of the Cal-Berkeley graduate school of journalism. She also graduated from Jadavpur University in India.
Hu launches AI newsletter for Reuters
Reuters correspondent Krystal Hu has launched an artificial intelligence newsletter for the news service. “With the help of our global tech team, I unpack the biggest themes in AI — from foundation models to chips, from the personalities shaping the field to the capital driving it — along with behind-the-scenes insights from our notebooks,” she wrote […]
Reuters hires Seetharaman to cover artificial intelligence
Reuters global tech editor Kenneth Li sent out the following on Monday morning: All, I’m very pleased to announce that Deepa Seetharaman is returning to Reuters as a Tech Correspondent, based in San Francisco. For Deepa, this marks a homecoming. She began her career at Reuters in New York and covered the U.S. autos in Detroit before […]
Christopher to cover AI for LA Times
Nilesh Christopher is now covering artificial intelligence for the Los Angeles Times. His work is currently supported by a Senior Fellowship from the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. Christopher has been a Nieman Fellow for the past year. Previously, he was a freelance journalist, appearing in Wired, The Atlantic, the BBC, Vice, South China Morning Post, […]
Hart now covering AI for The Verge
Robert Hart has been hired as a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things artificial intelligence. His work explores the social and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, applications in health and science and the evolving policy landscape, as well as safety threats and frontier labs like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic. His work is […]
Why WSJ’s parent is suing — and working with — AI companies
Allison Schiff of AdExchanger spoke with Josh Stinchcomb, the chief revenue officer of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, about its relationships with artificial intelligence companies. Schiff writes, “‘We have a licensing deal with OpenAI and we’re suing Perplexity, so I think it’s pretty clear what our general position is […]
How Wired got duped by an AI freelancer
Wired has posted an explanation about how it was tricked into publishing a fake story produced by artificial intelligence. Its story explains, “After some standard back-and-forth about framing and payment rates, our editor assigned the story. The edit process also raised no alarms; the writer accepted suggestions and responded to notes promptly and amiably. We […]
Wired, Business Insider remove AI-generated freelance work
Wired and Business Insider have removed news features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated works of fiction, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette. Tobitt reports, “Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author after concerns were raised by Press […]
