Andrew Deck @decka227

Reporting on AI and journalism @NiemanLab. Previously: @restofworld. Bylines: @TheNation @JapanTimes @PopMech. DMs open. Signal: andrewdeck.01 andrew-deck.com Joined April 2009

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Andrew Deck @decka227

6 days ago

"I’ve had people tell me they're afraid to go on the air, and after 40 years on the air, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that." A new report from @NewsisOut asks how local LGBTQ+ news outlets are weathering the second Trump administration. niemanlab.org/2025/09/local-…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

a week ago

Great to chat with @ryanebhowzell at NYU’s Ethics & Journalism Initiative about my reporting! We talked about AI "bias detectors,” automated fact-checking, and navigating both the hype and fear cycles on my beat. ethicsandjournalism.org/2025/09/18/nie…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

2 weeks ago

For @thenation: I reviewed @_KarenHao’s Empire of AI and took a closer look at her argument that OpenAI’s "scaling laws" echo the expansionist ideologies of European empires. thenation.com/article/cultur…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

3 weeks ago

A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer. @HanaaTameez with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. niemanlab.org/2025/09/from-r…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

4 weeks ago

In France, reporters are getting a cut of AI licensing revenue. Le Monde, for example, will redistribute 25% of its deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. I dug into these union agreements and asked why they haven’t made it across the Atlantic. niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-fra…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

a month ago

A new report from @CISLMUNC asks what it takes for small local newsrooms to build an AI chatbot. Researchers helped four newsrooms launch experimental chatbots in under a month. But only one has committed to running their chatbot beyond the program. niemanlab.org/2025/08/local-…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

2 months ago

Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued Perplexity for copyright infringement. The filing claims that Perplexity accessed 119,467 articles on Yomiuri’s site between February and June of this year. @NiemanLab niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

2 months ago

In a July arbitration hearing, Politico's top editors testified that two recent AI experiments don't need to meet journalistic editorial standards. Union members alleged those experiments violated AI guidelines in their contract. My latest @NiemanLab niemanlab.org/2025/08/politi…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

2 months ago

A new study by Muck Rack recorded over 1 million citations output by major generative AI models. Journalistic content was cited in 27% of responses, a number that jumped to 49% when those responses required "a level of recency." niemanlab.org/2025/07/genera…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

3 months ago

Today, Dow Jones launched a French version of its newswire using custom-built machine translation. It's part of a larger push to bring "real-time," AI-powered translations to the newswire, including services in Korean and Japanese. My latest @NiemanLab. niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-pres…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

3 months ago

Law360 is requiring all stories pass through an AI "bias indicator" before publication. The policy came after an executive from its parent company, LexisNexis, accused the newsroom of liberal bias in its Trump admin coverage. My latest for @NiemanLab. niemanlab.org/2025/07/law360…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

3 months ago

"It is critical to not let journalism be chewed up and spit out by technologies yet again." A year into its OpenAI litigation, CIR is one of the only journalism nonprofits to sue an AI company. I asked CEO @MonikaBauerlein and the CIR legal team why. niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-i…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

4 months ago

"I don’t want to just be entering text prompts for the rest of my life." I spoke to political cartoonists, including Pulitzer-winner @MarkFiore, about how they are using AI image generators in their work. My latest for @NiemanLab. niemanlab.org/2025/06/i-dont…

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Nieman Lab @NiemanLab

4 months ago

Anthropic’s new AI model didn’t just “blackmail” researchers in tests — it tried to leak information to news outlets niemanlab.org/2025/05/anthro…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

4 months ago

One Pulitzer Prize winner and three finalists disclosed using AI to this year's judging committee. I spoke to the journalists involved about how they used AI tools in their reporting. My latest for @NiemanLab. niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-th…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

5 months ago

Business Insider wants more of its employees to use ChatGPT, and for them to use it more often. In an all-hands, leadership named the top 10 ChatGPT users on staff to encourage adoption. BI told me 70% of employees are already using ChatGPT "regularly." niemanlab.org/2025/05/busine…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

5 months ago

I was at the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen last week and across the board speakers called for "radical" changes to news formats and distribution. "The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not,” said Gard Steiro, the EIC of VG. niemanlab.org/2025/05/nordic…

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Andrew Deck @decka227

5 months ago

Tomorrow's Publisher looks like a news site about the future of journalism. A closer look reveals it's a showcase for a new "AI wire service" called NoahWire. I spoke to the site's founders about the ethics of using AI to repurpose original reporting. niemanlab.org/2025/04/tomorr…