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AI can have a place in news, but it will never be a journalist

How will the news and journalism industries handle generative artificial intelligence? That’s the kind of broad and long-ranging question that it’s too soon to answer, mostly because we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what AI can do. Google recently ...

Founders knew the value of free press

In addition to being the revolutionaries who demanded independence from Great Britain and the visionaries who drafted the Constitution, many of America’s Founding Fathers were journalists. Some owned and published newspapers, others wrote for them, but all understood the value of a free ...

Chris Licht and the decline of journalism

Before the recently fired CNN President Chris Licht fades into a Google search, it is important to reflect on what he tried to do and why it was equivalent to offering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse.   In the lengthy Atlantic magazine interview that was used as the ...

CNN’s town hall cannot give Trump unquestioned network airtime

Count us as enthusiastic celebrants of World Press Freedom Day, marked last week. Across the world, too many journalists are punished, imprisoned and even killed for daring to shine a light on the powerful. As another newspaper says, democracy dies in darkness; the flip side of that credo is ...