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Christopher Allbritton

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Washington, D.C.
As seen in: CNN, CNN Underscored, Medium, MSN, Yahoo Life, Reuters, The Guardian, TIME, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK and
Covers:  international relations, foreign policy, military, space, consumer technology, climate change, refugees
Freelance journalist and media consultant. My work has appeared in @Time, @Reuters, and many others. Knight '09, writer/editor. No longer active here. I dissent

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Chris Allbritton is a well-known journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering some of the biggest stories of the last decade, including the conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan. His work on technology, Islam, the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, and travel has appeared in Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Popular Mechanics, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newark Star-Ledger, Singapore Straight-Times,…

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The True Cost and Benefit of New York's Migrant Crisis | Worth

The True Cost and Benefit of New York's Migrant Crisis | Worth

Billions have been allocated to tackle the immigrant influx. Is it a drag on the city or an opportunity for e…

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Ukrainian Gamers Are Using Tabletop Role-Playing To Help Survive Russia's Invasion

Ukrainian Gamers Are Using Tabletop Role-Playing To Help Survive Russia's Invasion

Throughout the war-ravaged country, the fantastic and the real are entwined as people slay dragons and save t…

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The Nuke Issue: Inside Kyiv's Radiation Monitoring Stations

The Nuke Issue: Inside Kyiv's Radiation Monitoring Stations

With the nation concerned about a potential nuclear catastrophe, we take you behind-the-scenes with the peopl…

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Spirit Tripping With Colombian Shamans

Spirit Tripping With Colombian Shamans

It's a legendary drug said to provoke spiritual journeys, but my night with ayahuasca-or yagé-in the mountain…

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ISIS Guide A Mix of Travel and Terror

ISIS Guide A Mix of Travel and Terror

A British jihadist who fled the United Kingdom has penned a jaunty travel guide to the so-called Islamic Stat…

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How to Be a War Photographer and Working Mom

How to Be a War Photographer and Working Mom

Lynsey Addario is a hard woman to pin down. Since the beginning of her career as a photojournalist in her ear…

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Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, pitching frontier work at half the price

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By Christopher Allbritton
| The Media Copilot
Anthropic put Claude Opus 5 on sale today at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the exact prices it charged for the previous Opus 4.8. According to Anthropic’s announcement, the model reaches close to the intelligence of its higher-end Fable 5 model at half the cost, and it now serves as the default model on Claude Max and the strongest option on Claude Pro. The company is leaning hard on benchmark numbers to make its case.
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Publishers Turn to AI ‘Honeypots’ to Fight Content Scraping

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By Romy Abu-Fadel, Christopher Allbritton
| The Media Copilot
As AI companies continue scraping the web for training data, some publishers are experimenting with a new tactic that doesn’t only block unwanted bots, but tries to waste their time and money. Known as LLM honeypotting, Digiday describes the approach as a form of deception to lure AI crawlers into consuming plausible-looking but ultimately worthless content, aimed at making large-scale data collecting so computationally expensive that it becomes less economically viable. Who’s doing this?
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Google search traffic to drop by half by Q3 2027 for UK publishers

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By Christopher Allbritton
| The Media Copilot
Organic Google Search referrals to eight major UK publishing groups fell 7.1% between the first and second quarters of 2025. If that holds, the volume of pageviews Google sends to these publishers will be cut in half by the third quarter of 2027. That projection comes from the Association of Online Publishers’ new Artificial Intelligence Publisher Impact Study, detailed by Richard Reeves in Press Gazette.
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