Top media outlets fail to disclose who is bankrolling their AI reporters
Several major news organizations are hosting reporter fellows with salaries paid by donor-supported AI journalism groups—relationships that frequently go undisclosed.The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism places fellows with outlets like Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, the Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. And while some outlets are alerting readers to those funding relationships, others aren’t, raising questions about how disclosure standards are applied.The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism pays its fellows between $60,000 and $80,000, and fellows with at least five years of experience can make between $90,000 and $110,000.AI CHATBOTS TAKE HEAT OVER LEFT-WING BIAS: ‘NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED NEUTRAL’"Tarbell is committed to supporting independent journalism that demystifies the debates around this technology, holds the companies and people building it to account and fosters the discourse necessary to chart a path that benefits society," the group states on its website.Tarbell has sponsored at least 28 journalists covering topics like Anthropic, deepfakes, AI in geopolitics, misuse, the economy and misinformation.
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Several major news organizations are hosting reporter fellows with salaries paid by donor-supported AI journalism groups—relationships that frequently go undisclosed.The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism places fellows with outlets like Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, the Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. And while some outlets are alerting readers to those funding relationships, others aren’t, raising questions about how disclosure standards are applied.The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism pays its fellows between $60,000 and $80,000, and fellows with at least five years of experience can make between $90,000 and $110,000.AI CHATBOTS TAKE HEAT OVER LEFT-WING BIAS: ‘NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED NEUTRAL’"Tarbell is committed to supporting independent journalism that demystifies the debates around this technology, holds the companies and people building it to account and fosters the discourse necessary to chart a path that benefits society," the group states on its website.Tarbell has sponsored at least 28 journalists covering topics like Anthropic, deepfakes, AI in geopolitics, misuse, the economy and misinformation. On its website, the group states that it does not set the direction of its reporters’ work."Our donors have no editorial control over the work of Tarbell, our fellows, or our grantees. Tarbell does not accept anonymous donations greater than $10,000," the website says.The group also emphasized the policy in a statement to Fox News Digital."All our fellows maintain strict editorial independence.
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- Several major news organizations are hosting reporter fellows with salaries paid by donor-supported AI journalism groups—relationships that frequently go undisclosed.The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism places fellows with outlets like Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, the Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. And while some outlets are alerting readers to those funding relationships, others aren’t, raising questions about how disclosure standards are applied.The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism pays its fellows between $60,000 and $80,000, and fellows with at least five years of experience can make between $90,000 and $110,000.AI CHATBOTS TAKE HEAT OVER LEFT-WING BIAS: ‘NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED NEUTRAL’"Tarbell is committed to supporting independent journalism that demystifies the debates around this technology, holds the companies and people building it to account and fosters the discourse necessary to chart a path that benefits society," the group states on its website.Tarbell has sponsored at least 28 journalists covering topics like Anthropic, deepfakes, AI in geopolitics, misuse, the economy and misinformation.
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