What happens to carefully crafted journalism when readers expect AI-generated, personalized stories created instantly? Semafor’s Gina Chua on how AI will upend the news.

“It’s the return of the shoe-leather reporter, empowered by an AI partner. One gathers trust, information and relationships. The other who assembles.” (David Cohn, LinkedIn)

Users of German news site Süddeutsche who were shown a difficult quiz about AI-generated images afterwards trusted media less and visited the news site a little bit more often – and now everyone’s hoping that quality journalism still has a chance. (Sarah Scire, Nieman Journalism Lab)

Stories too good to be true, payment via Paypal: At least six publications have taken down articles under the name Margaux Blanchard that were AI-generated. (Maya Yang, Guardian)

Welcome, future newsroom leaders: JournalismAI has recruited 20 participants from 17 nations for its “Skills Lab”, empowering non-technical staff in the responsible use of AI.

Google steady but social and direct referrals are down: Chartbeat data shows traffic trends to 565 US and UK publishers since 2019 (Charlotte Tobitt, PressGazette)

The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern: From “Mad Men” to the AI era, the problems of underconsumption. (Matt Pearce, Substack)

How Hearst’s DevHub is Building AI Tools That Work for Local News (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)

The publishers’ guide to being gaslit by tech platforms (the AI edition) (Seb Joseph, Sara Guaglione, DigiDay)

It’s the return of the shoe-leather reporter, empowered by an AI partner: David Cohn’s take on the Death of the Article debate.

“Transparency” and “disclosure” are buzzwords in the AI and journalism space – this report looks at the state of global research. (Center for News, Technology & Innovation)