AI & News

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AI & News

Helping global news organizations, technology leaders, and policymakers navigate AI’s impacts on the information ecosystem responsibly

Local News Sustainability

Hosting practitioners, supporters, and experts to advance the rebuilding of independent, sustainable, and quality information at the local level

Topical Media Briefings

Convenings for editors, reporters, and columnist about complex issues to advance the public interest

Reporting on AI Hall of Fame

The best reporting on AI emphasizes the humans using and making the technology and is specific about how these tools are used.

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Signal & Trust – Issue VII

Publishers and platforms search for common ground on AI at an Aspen Digital roundtable in Silicon Valley. Check out Issue 7 of Aspen Digital’s monthly Signal & Trust Newsletter.

• Aspen Digital

July 22, 2026

Signal & Trust – Issue VI

AI becomes a fault line in American newsrooms. Check out Issue 6 of Aspen Digital’s monthly Signal & Trust Newsletter.

• Aspen Digital

June 29, 2026

Signal & Trust – Issue V

Can news publishers win back young audiences in the age of AI?

• Aspen Digital

May 29, 2026

Signal & Trust – Issue IV

AI agents are moving into the newsroom, ready or not.

• Aspen Digital

April 29, 2026

Can local news meet the moment? A resounding ‘maybe’

Growing threats to First Amendment protections represent both opportunity and existential risk to the field of local news in the US.

• Vivian Schiller
• V.P. & Executive Director

• Jim Friedlich
• Executive Director & CEO, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

February 4, 2026

Mind the Gap: AI and the Future of News in Latin America

The news ecosystem in Latin America is taking a pragmatic, audience-centered approach to AI: experiment boldly, standardize wisely, and keep humans (including the humans who develop the AI tools) accountable.

January 15, 2026