Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI “At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment feels like it’s a fair transaction price, you say yes.” August 13, 2026 By Issie Lapowsky
‘We Have to Identify Where We Are Adding Human Value’ April 8, 2026 By Carolina Abbott Galvão Jeremy Caplan, a journalism teacher and newsletter author, on the potential of AI and its limits.
What Fills the Gap April 3, 2026 By Susie Banikarim Examining “crisis pregnancy” centers in rural parts of Texas that lack maternal care. Plus: Bad AI practice and CNN’s good reporting from the West Bank.
Did I Really Say That? March 26, 2026 By Emily Bell A European journalist apologized for using AI to fabricate quotes—including from me. But there’s little accountability in blaming a chatbot.
Hyperlocal AI with a Million Subscribers March 5, 2026 By Liz Skalka Patch built a newsletter system to be not hard-nosed journalism but a community-building tool.
Grok Is Now Editing Itself February 12, 2026 By C.J. Robinson More and more, Elon Musk’s chatbot is both suggesting and approving changes to Grokipedia, his Wikipedia clone.
AI Search Has a Citation Problem March 6, 2025 By Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar We compared eight AI search engines. They’re all bad at citing news.
