“Documenting the structural shifts of the fourth estate since the dawn of the digital age.”
Originally published by the World Editors Forum, Editors Weblog has covered the transformation of global journalism for over two decades. Today, we focus on the most consequential shift yet: artificial intelligence in the newsroom.
An explainer for editors on how large language models are trained, what content feeds them, and why publishers are taking legal and commercial action over the use of their journalism.
An explainer for editors on how large language models are trained, what content feeds them, and why publishers are taking legal and commercial action over the use of their journalism.
A running guide to where the EU AI Act stands in 2026: the August deadline, the new content-labeling rules, and what they mean for publishers.
Synthetic media is content created or altered by AI. Here is what the term covers, how it is made, and why it matters for newsrooms.
How to build a dedicated AI verification function - from tool selection to staffing.
Downloadable policy templates for newsrooms adopting AI writing tools.
AI image generation threatens photojournalism's evidentiary role. How the field is adapting.
How detectors work, why they disagree, and what actually holds up.
Start reading →C2PA, Content Credentials, and the standards behind verifiable media.
Start reading →Detecting and responding to synthetic video, audio, and images.
Start reading →Copyright fights, licensing deals, crawlers, and AI-era traffic.
Start reading →Regulation, disclosure, and editorial guidelines for the AI newsroom.
Start reading →Revisiting our coverage from the past two decades. How our analysis of earlier shifts predicted the current platform fragmentation we see today.
Explore ArchiveForecasting major shifts through 2031 - from universal provenance to AI-native newsrooms.
Two years of AI in journalism: the predictions that didn't pan out and the approaches that worked.
Content authentication didn't start with AI. A historical survey and what each era teaches about trust.
How to build a dedicated AI verification function - from tool selection to staffing.
Technology has eroded media trust. Can C2PA, watermarking, and detection tools restore it?
Downloadable policy templates for newsrooms adopting AI writing tools.