MS NOW will launch a paid membership program for “super fans”

When MS NOW — known until last year as MSNBC — celebrated its 30th anniversary last month, Status reported that the focus was “as much about the future as the past.” Natalie Korach described early conversations about the network’s planned subscription product, which she wrote would be “centered around community, giving them access to their...

2026/8/20
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Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes

Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media. For the six-person team at India Today, that might include addressing an AI-generated archival photograph of a politician, a clip of deadly flooding ripped from its original context, or...

2026/8/20
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Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone

Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They’re likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging up your email. But one publication is over it. If you want to write for The Food Section, you’ll have to pick up the phone. “We’re switching...

2026/8/19
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The Athletic teams up with sports creators to reach new (and younger) audiences

Last month at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, creator Brandon Pereira, who posts as Coach Koe, met a kid named Dominic. Dominic had spent the summer washing garbage cans to earn money to come to the convention and buy cards for his collection. He and Coach Koe browsed the offerings at the convention...

2026/8/18
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Claude is changing how it generates prose to be more detectable (and maybe worse?)

It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: “I know it when I see it.” But when it comes to AI-generated content, we may think we know it when we see it — but our methods are far from perfect....

2026/8/18
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Can we gamify that? The innovators turning investigations on spying scandals and vote rigging into video games

An animated phone vibrates on a blackened screen as ominous piano music tinkles in the background. When you click, speech bubbles appear. “It’s Thanasis Koukakis,” the person on the other end says. “I’m borrowing a phone…Just don’t try to reach out to me for now. Texts, calls, try to avoid it.” This is the opening...

2026/8/18
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Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try

If a news outlet announces a website launch, you might think it’s safe to assume it’s a news website that’s launching. But that’s not what Chicago Public Media has in mind for chicago.com. Chicago Public Media is already the parent nonprofit of two existing news sites, WBEZ and, since 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times. For chicago.com,...

2026/8/14
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Apple may start paying publishers to deliver news with Siri AI

Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to use their news and up-to-date information in the revamped Siri AI, sources told the Journal. The company has reportedly discussed...

2026/8/14
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Remember that raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper? The city has agreed to pay one reporter $850,000

On August 11, 2023, local law enforcement seized electronics and reporting materials from the Marion County Record in a raid that provoked a national outcry over the blatant press freedom violation in small-town Kansas. The raid led to multiple federal lawsuits against the county government, public officials, and the city, accusing them of retaliating against...

2026/8/13
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Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature

On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people. In the days that followed, AI-generated images of the wreckage circulated widely and fake philanthropic websites scammed people out of donations. False claims that people were trapped under rubble diverted rescue efforts away from the places that needed...

2026/8/13
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