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Senior writer + founder of @NiemanLab at Harvard. I write about (a) digital journalism and (b) southern U.S. history, mostly. Cajun.

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Claude is changing how it generates prose to be more detectable (and maybe worse?)

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By Joshua Benton Verified
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Claude is changing how it generates prose to be more detectable (and maybe worse?) LINK: daringfireball.net  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   August 17, 2026 It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: “I know it when I see it.” But when it comes to AI-generated content, we may think we know it when we see it — but our methods are far from perfect.
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Is Americans’ declining trust in media driven by political messaging?

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Aug. 5, 2026, 4:23 p.m. A massive analysis of every speech given on the floors of Congress between 1939 and 2023 finds that criticism of the news media is remarkably tied to specific partisan interests and historical moments. Why has trust in American news media dropped so much in the past 50 years — much more than it’s declined in other rich western countries? To some people, I’m sure, the answer will seem obvious: Journalism’s just gotten worse.
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U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago

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U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago LINK: www.bloomberg.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   August 3, 2026 Ten years ago, I wrote a piece on how the internet was sucking journalistic resources out of the middle of the country and concentrating it on the coasts — primarily New York City.
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