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A European journalist apologized for using AI to fabricate quotes—including from me. But there’s little accountability in blaming a chatbot.

Noah Shachtman lands at the Times, somehow. Plus: A strong start for a Substack looking westward, and a Banner week in Baltimore.

As MAGA media splinters over Trump’s foreign wars, the Murdoch empire has stayed loyal—but what happens when Lachlan succeeds Rupert?

What Minneapolis can show us.

“You can look back at this last year and see that the administration’s attacks on the media are very much content-oriented,” Lemon’s lawyer said.

Devastation in Iran. Plus: The death of a refugee in Buffalo, and the military’s “simmering white Christian nationalism.”

As the US wages war on Iran, journalists’ fight for access enters a new phase.

A profile of El Mencho. Plus: An incredibly long State of the Union that no one will remember; history repeats, nastily, in Georgia.

Cleveland.com is embracing AI tools, including an AI rewrite desk.

On climate policy, the Trump administration is willfully burying its head in the sand. It’s crucial newsrooms don’t follow. 

Ann Curry reports from Sudan. Plus: Second-person scenarios, and AI mayhem.

An Atlantic reporter says far-right influencers such as Nick Fuentes offer clues to where US politics is going.

A tool for parsing the Epstein dumps. Plus: Papers clash in the Deep South; a decades-long Florida waitlist.

Experts discuss the risks posed to journalism as the courts test the limits of press freedom law.

Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens.