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Jake Pitre

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Black-and-white photo of six journalists in a newsroom working together. A speech bubble has been added to one journalist, who says, "How can we improve journalism's most influential ethics code?" Another journalist is edited with a speech bubble overhead that reads, Ask Claude.
Should journalism have an industry-wide ethics policy for covering artificial intelligence? 
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May 5, 2026

Tech journalists have set their own standards as journalism organizations haven’t yet issued consistent guidelines around generative artificial intelligence — whether around how it’s used in newsroom processes or how it’s covered.

An iceberg photo "deep-fried" per deep-fried memes, with a distorted Pepe the Frog at the top of the iceberg, 6-7 in Impact font at the surface where the iceberg meets the water, followed by a blurry "Notices Bulge / OwO What's this?" meme, and deepest on the iceberg is a distorted meme of Mitt Romney in a 2016 presidential debate, with the all-caps text reading "Did someone say Binders Full of Women???"
Do newsrooms need a memeologist?
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December 4, 2025

In the age of meme-slop and digital newsrooms shuttering, internet culture reporters say mainstream media is ill-equipped to cover not just trends, but a radicalization that doesn't look how it used to.