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A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools

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A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools LINK: www.tandfonline.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Andrew Deck   |   July 8, 2026 Last year, MIT’s Media Lab came out with a buzzy study on a phenomenon that’s been coined “cognitive debt.” In short, the researchers found that when ChatGPT users offloaded essay writing tasks to their AI assistants, their own writing abilities declined.
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Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026

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Hundreds gathered in Lithuania to discuss Russian influence operations, “LLM poisoning,” and how to survive a funding crisis. “Welcome to Vilnius, the city where we face cognitive warfare for real,” Robertas Kaunas, Lithuania’s minister of national defense, said in his opening remarks at this year’s GlobalFact. On June 17, hundreds of fact-checkers assembled in Vilnius for the annual conference of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), part of the Poynter Institute.
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Beehiiv’s new Cloudflare partnership gives indie journalists a new level of control over AI crawlers

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Beehiiv’s new Cloudflare partnership gives indie journalists a new level of control over AI crawlers LINK: www.cloudflare.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Andrew Deck   |   June 25, 2026 Over the past year, major news publishers have taken aggressive anti-scraping measures to curb the rise of AI crawlers. So far, most of these backend interventions have been out of reach for independent journalists who publish on third-party newsletter platforms.
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