Funding: Own budget (247), Tech company (other) (45), Media dev org (32), Tech company (OpenAI) (27)
Content Scaling Agent (CSA) — AI-powered tool using Anthropic's Claude to repackage news articles at varying lengths and formats; journalists import URLs and select up to five target audiences; CSA generates: 200–1,500-word summaries optimised for newsletters and social media, video scripts for short-form content, 400–800-word 'Discover explainer' versions optimised for Google Search, and audience- and…
Bertie — Forbes' in-house AI publishing platform and CMS, named after founder B.C. Forbes and launched with the July 2018 site relaunch. Forbes described it as giving storytellers "a bionic suit": real-time trending topics to cover, recommendations for making headlines more compelling, and suggestions for relevant imagery. It suggests article topics from trending data and reader interests, recommends SEO- and…
'Pink slime' AI newsroom network: Prism runs more than 200 AI-generated local-news and hobby sites across the US (including Grand Traverse and Iron County, Michigan), publishing two to six 'local' stories a day under the bylines of ~40 journalists — none of whom are human. The AI copies and rewrites other outlets' reporting (subjects are never contacted), pairs it with AI-generated 'illustrations' that frequently…
Antitrust lawsuit against Google over AI Overviews impact on publisher traffic and revenue (filed Sept. 12, 2025, US District Court, District of Columbia); first news publisher antitrust suit against Google over AI Overviews; 101-page complaint by 14 plaintiff entities (Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, etc.) alleges Google systematically coerces publishers into providing…
First NewsGuild-CWA newsroom to unionize specifically in response to AI adoption. McClatchy made the State College, PA daily an early test market for its Content Scaling Agent (CSA), a Claude-powered tool that repackages articles into AI-generated summaries and video scripts; reporters were required to publish at least one CSA story a week. After McClatchy changed its byline policy in Feb. 2026 to run reporters'…
Copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft (The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation et al, Case No. 1:2023cv11195, filed Dec. 27, 2023, US District Court SDNY); landmark first major newspaper copyright suit against an AI company; claims OpenAI unlawfully used millions of NYT articles to train ChatGPT without authorization or compensation; exhibits show ChatGPT able to reproduce NYT articles…