Andrew Deck
Staff Writer, AI at Nieman Lab
Reporting on AI and journalism @NiemanLab. Previously: @restofworld. Bylines: @JapanTimes @MetropolisJapan @PopMech. DMs open. Signal: andrewdeck.01
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5 days ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
Long gone are the days when hundreds of full-time editorial cartoonists were employed by major daily newspapers across the U.S. The Herb Block Scholarship estimates the number of cartoonists working at papers nationwide has dropped from 120 to just 30 over the past 25 years. In 2023, three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists were laid off by the McClatchy newspaper chain in just one day. As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Andrew Deck
1 hour agoThe digital age promised freedom from tedious tasks, a future where machines would handle the routine, allowing human minds to focus on bigger things. Artificial intelligence, in its growing presence, has delivered on some of that. From crafting eloquent emails to optimizing complex logistics, AI …
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2 weeks ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
A visualization of Elon Musk’s political reinvention. A genealogical investigation that hinged on land grants from the mid-1800s. A visual forensics analysis that disproved the Israeli military’s narrative about killing two journalists. A years-long probe that produced a new database of people killed in the U.S. by police officers who used “less-lethal force.”On May 5, the Pulitzer Prizes recognized these stories among its winners and finalists across 15 different journalism categories.
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2 weeks ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
LINK: www.cjr.org ➚ | Posted by: Andrew Deck | May 21, 2025A new 84-page report from Peter D. Brown and Klaudia Jaźwińska, researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, sketches out the state of play between big tech platforms and news publishers. It’s a follow-up to a major 2019 Tow Center report that charted the beginnings of the “post-social” era for news publishers.
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3 weeks ago |
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck
Business Insider wants more of its employees to use ChatGPT, and to use it more often in their everyday work. That was the message from an all-hands meeting at the end of April, during which several employees presented on how they have folded ChatGPT into their workflow, and leadership encouraged experimentation among holdouts on staff.
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I was at the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen last week and across the board speakers called for "radical" changes to news formats and distribution. "The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not,” said Gard Steiro, the EIC of VG. https://t.co/Yz9Ytwucwx
Tomorrow's Publisher looks like a news site about the future of journalism. A closer look reveals it's a showcase for a new "AI wire service" called NoahWire. I spoke to the site's founders about the ethics of using AI to repurpose original reporting. https://t.co/x2V7I4BGek
Last month, Patch announced it was publishing AI-generated newsletters in 30,000 communities across the U.S. I spoke to former Patch workers about the precursor to its AI program and the decision to leave human newsletter writers across the country behind https://t.co/nedbiY6O5t