Reuters Institute’s highlights from the International Journalism Festival 2025 in Perugia.
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Deep-dive into RAG and evaluation: How Süddeutsche built their election chatbot. (Medium)
“Stories that just could not be told without the assistance of AI”: NYT’s Zach Seward leans on AI tools, yet remains skeptical of AI-generated content. (Depth Perception)
Quartz, once a beacon of business journalism, is now a media zombie after being acquired by private equity (Obituray by co-founder Zach Seward)
Cautiously Optimistic AI Reckoning: Come See Our Talk at re:publica 25
Clare Spencer and I are heading to Berlin to talk about – waves hands dramatically – all of this. Journalism, AI, and whatever else feels relevant in this moment. We named our session AI in Media: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? and pitched this to re:publica: "Two industry insiders take you behind the scenes to...
AI is disrupting business models, warns Joshua Rothman: “We could be left with A.I.-summarized wire reports, Substacks, and not much else.” At the same time, he finds working with AI search “efficient, fun, and intellectually stimulating.” (The New Yorker)
Dystopian vision or pragmatic future? Newsquest’s AI-powered content creators stir fears of eroded journalistic standards. (Bron Maher, Press Gazette)
AI search has had little impact on referral traffic to date, based on Comscore’s desktop user data in the U.S. (Nick Hagar, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
The Defender Handbook: Radical Roots & Social-First Digital Tactics (Kansas City Defender)
Entrepreneurial Journalism Teaching Toolkit (Jeremy Caplan)
AI Search Has A Citation Problem. We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. (Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar, Columbia Journalism Review)
Writing with AI. Five ways professional writers are leveraging ChatGPT (OpenAI)
AI in newsrooms: how to do it, how not to do it, and how to remember your audience’s needs as you go along (Louise Story, Dmitry Shishkin, #ijf24)
