ai journalism

Mihar Dias’s August 5 column, “The Intern in the Newsroom,” lands on the right operational rule for journalists using generative AI: treat it as a fast, capable assistant whose work is unverified until a human proves otherwise. The problem is that the column’s most important warning is not about...

A University of Sydney audit has found that Microsoft’s Copilot routinely sidelines Australian journalism in its AI‑generated news summaries, favouring US and European outlets, erasing bylines and flattening local context — a pattern that threatens referral traffic, newsroom revenue, and...

A new University of Sydney study warns that AI-driven news summaries are quietly reshaping how Australians encounter current affairs — and not in ways that favour local journalism. The paper, led by Dr Timothy Koskie of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, finds that Microsoft’s Copilot...

A sharply worded satirical post on RoyalDutchShellPlc.com — written with generative tools, analyzed by another AI, and published by a human editor — has quietly become a live case study in how satire, defamation law, and AI-driven journalism now intersect, with practical lessons for reporters...