Media Coverage
Below is a selection of media coverage featuring my research and commentary. Articles are sorted by topic (but chronologically within the categories). Articles authored by me are marked with a * and my name in bold. Older entries before 2024 are currently missing and will be updated as soon as I find the time.
AI and News
- The Times. (2025, March 10). Letter to the editor: An ethical AI. The Times.
- Guaglione, S. (2025, March 4). Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds. Digiday.
- Hamilton, I. A. (2025, February 23). Whatever happened to all those AI copyright lawsuits? The Daily Upside.
- *Simon, F. M. (2025, February 11). Is it a good idea to use AI to clone real journalists’ voices? It depends how you interpret the question. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Media Confidential Podcast (2024, December 19). AI: Powering newsrooms of the future? Prospect Magazine.
- *Simon, F. M. (2024, November 21). Neither humans-in-the-loop nor transparency labels will save the news media when it comes to AI. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Higgins, A. (2024, November 3). A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in A.I.-generated presenters. The New York Times.
- Mahadevan, A. (2024, November 1). ChatGPT rolls out a Google competitor with a skewed view of the news. Poynter.
- Streever, D. (2024, October 11). How is artificial intelligence being used in journalism now? What's coming next? WWXI News at NPR.
- *Simon, F. M. (2024, October 10). We need clarity about the deals between AI companies and news publishers. Here’s why. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Scrimgeour, G. (2024, September 11). An AI bot named James has my old local news job. Wired.
- *Simon, F. M., Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2024, July 2). How AI chatbots responded to questions about the 2024 UK election. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Orsi, J. (2024, June 27). We asked people about using AI to make the news. They’re anxious and annoyed. Poynter.
- *Simon, F. M. (2024, June 11). What works: Effective strategies for reporting on AI. EBU.
- *Simon, F. M., Adami, M., Kahn, G., & Fletcher, R. (2024, June 6). How AI chatbots responded to basic questions about the 2024 European elections right before the vote. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
- Guaglione, S. (2024, June 4). The pros and cons of publishers’ AI licensing deals. Digiday. (Wayback Machine)
- Swant, M. (2024, May 24). Why publishers fear traffic, ad declines from Google’s AI-generated search results. Digiday. (Wayback Machine)
- Guaglione, S. (2023, December 7). Media briefing: Publishers’ generative AI task forces have evolved into a more distributed model of experimentation. Digiday.
- Scire, S. (2023, December 5). Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do. Nieman Lab.
- Dudley, B. (2023, December 6). Free press roundup: Bellingham Daily cutting print days plus layoffs, AI. The Seattle Times.
- ETX Daily Up. (2023, December 6). Les Américains pensent que les articles rédigés par une IA seraient "une mauvaise chose". La Dépêche.
Misinformation
- Wutscher, I. (2025, February 10). “AI Slop” ist das neue Spam. ORF Wissen.
- Bayley, S. (2025, February 7). Picture of Mexican president wearing a ‘Make America Mexicana Again’ hat is fake. Yahoo News UK.
- Merlan, A. (2024, September). How disinformation research came under fire. Mother Jones.
- Borchardt, A. (2024, June 24). Gesellschaft des Misstrauens. Internationale Politik.
- Allyn, B. (2024, June 3). 'All eyes on Rafah' is the Internet's most viral AI image. Two artists are claiming credit. NPR. (Wayback Machine)
- Gold, H. (2024, May 31). A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm. CNN. (Wayback Machine)
Other
- *Simon, F. M. (2025, January 20). What should we make of Meta killing fact-checking? NIKKEI Digital Governance. (Japanese)
- Murray, C. (2024, December 27). How we were deepfaked by election deepfakes. Financial Times.
- Heikkilä, M. (2024, September 18). AI-generated content doesn’t seem to have swayed recent European elections. MIT Technology Review.
- *Simon, F. M., McBride, K., & Altay, S. (2024, September 6). Superwahljahr: Warum der Einfluss von KI nicht unser größtes Problem ist. t3n.
- *Simon, F. M., McBride, K., & Altay, S. (2024, September 3). AI’s impact on elections is being overblown. MIT Technology Review. (Wayback Machine)
- Ball, J. (2024, June 12). Fifteen ideas for a better Britain. The New European.