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The name says “Code,” but you don’t need to write any: Florent Daudens walks journalists through setting up Claude Code as a persistent reporting assistant that can read your files, track your story, and stop asking you to re-upload that PDF for the fifth time.

Ask AI “what’s the biggest pay gap?” and it’ll miss negative numbers. Ask for “the company” with the top score and it’ll ignore ties. Paul Bradshaw tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot for data analysis – and catalogues where tools trip up. (Medium)

Scale back service journalism, evergreen content, and general news – instead, focus more on original investigations and on-the-ground reporting. That’s one response to AI. More trends for the year in Nic Newman’s Trend Report. (Reuters Institute)

Read-aloud articles and entire podcasts now come with AI voices. Ironically, it’s a highly trained professional speaker, journalist Victoria Craig, who is now being mistaken for a robot voice. And listeners are complaining. (Financial Times)

The Brutal Economics of Liquid Content: “Only organizations with massive scale or premium brand differentiation can survive these economics.” The article? Commodified. “What if news media were to let go of the artifact as the product and productize the process instead?” (Shuwei Fang, Radically Informed)