Inside the AI Strategies of The New York Times and The Washington Post; 12% of Canadians Use AI as Their Primary Search Engine

Your Monday press recap

📰 MEDIA & JOURNALISM

📌 Inside the AI Strategies of The New York Times and The Washington Post
🔗 NiemanLab → https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/a-look-inside-the-ai-strategies-at-the-new-york-times-and-the-washington-post/

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📌 Is Your Newsroom Secure in 2025?
🔗 NiemanLab → https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-2025-do-you-know-how-secure-your-newsroom-is/

📌 Chicago Journalist Detained While Covering Protest
🔗 The Triibe → https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/chicago-journalist-detained-while-covering-protest-outside-broadview-immigration-facility/

📌 From Denmark to Finland: Zetland Bets Its Model Can Travel
🔗 NiemanLab → https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from-denmark-to-finland-to-norway-zetland-bets-its-model-can-travel-well-and-germanys-up-next/

📌 Better Interviewing: In-Person vs. Video Calls
🔗 Poynter → https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/interviewing-in-person-better-interviewing-video-call/

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🤖 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & TECH

⚡ Artificial Intelligence at the Minnesota Star Tribune
🔗 Poynter → https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/minnesota-star-tribune-artificial-intelligence/

⚡ Meta Vibes AI: A Day in the Chaos Machine
🔗 Les News → https://lesnews.ca/intelligence-artificielle/meta-vibes-ia-une-journee-dans-la-machine-a-chaos-infini/

⚡ OpenAI’s Big Week in the AI Arms Race
🔗 CNBC → https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/openai-big-week-ai-arms-race.html

⚡ Apple’s ChatGPT Rival and the Next Macbook Air
🔗 Bloomberg → https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-28/apple-s-chatgpt-rival-m5-macbook-air-new-monitor-timing-ads-coming-to-maps-mg3ne6rw

⚡ 12% of Canadians Use AI as Their Primary Search Engine
🔗 98.5 FM → https://www.985fm.ca/audio/726627/c-est-12-des-canadiens-qui-utilisent-l-ia-comme-premier-moteur-de-recherche

⚡ ChatGPT Becomes Proactive with Pulse
🔗 LinkedIn Pulse → https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatgpt-devient-proactif-avec-pulse-sa-nouvelle-emily-turrettini-i0hhe

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📺 CULTURE, POLITICS & PUBLIC DEBATE

🎬 Why Is Jimmy Kimmel Back on TV?
🔗 Poynter → https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/why-is-jimmy-kimmel-back-tv/

🎬 Jimmy Kimmel and Political Pressure on TV Networks
🔗 NiemanLab → https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/jimmy-kimmel-may-be-back-but-tv-networks-are-more-vulnerable-to-political-pressure-than-ever-before/

🎬 Trump’s Strategy to Seize TikTok from China
🔗 Libération → https://www.liberation.fr/economie/economie-numerique/comment-trump-entend-ravir-a-la-chine-le-controle-de-tiktok-20250928_HH3ZWEJ6NZGQZCHSUKCEWILVXM/

🎬 New Kremlin-Linked Influence Campaign Exposed
🔗 NewsGuard →

New Kremlin-Linked Influence Campaign Targeting Moldovan Elections Draws 17 Million Views on X and Infects AI Models

🎬 Disinformation Targets Moldovan Elections
🔗 Radio-Canada → https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2195581/desinformation-russie-election-moldavie-union-europeenne

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🎵 ARTS, CULTURE & SOCIETY

🎶 Quebec and Indigenous Voices Push for Streaming Support
🔗 Le Devoir → https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/920811/avenir-musique-quebecoise-autochtone-devant-crtc

🎶 News Fatigue and Escape From The Point of View of a Gabrielle Roy’s Novel
🔗 Le Devoir → https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/le-devoir-de/920541/alexandre-chenevert-fatigue-informationnelle

🎶 Consensus Around Saving Journalism as a Public Good
🔗 Le Devoir → https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/medias/920595/consensus-sauver-information-bien-public

🎶 Sympathy for Empathy in France
🔗 La Presse → https://lp.ca/8dYLvi?sharing=true

🎶 Strike at Le Parisien: Anger on the Rise
🔗 Libération → https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/greve-au-parisien-on-a-senti-la-colere-monter-ces-derniers-jours-20250926_4BYUFJAXEVA2RJ4I4O5QYAW6AU/