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If you are anything like us, you both want to know everything there is to know about artificial intelligence, while simultaneously wanting to shut out all the noise and never to hear the words "AI strategy" again.

Much of the online content about how AI can save (or ruin) journalism is either too complicated to understand, too repetitive or totally useless.

AI in journalism is still an emerging field and, frankly, very few people can call themselves experts. But there is a handful of smart writers out there who are doing their best to cut through the noise with sensible newsletters. Here are our picks:

Wayfinder, The Open Edition

A weekly newsletter by Ezra Eeman, strategy and innovation director at Dutch pubic broadcaster NPO, is for "for all of us trying to navigate the changing news and media landscape". Sign up for the latest updates from one of the brightest minds in the field of AI and journalism.

Written by journalist and trainer Harriet Meyer, this newsletter aims to bridge the gap between the hype and what actually works. Sign up for knowledge on strategy frameworks and real client results.

Read about everything from liquid content to AI ghostwriters in this indispensable, free, five-minute digest of quality long reads about AI, media and publishing, created by the founder of Mathison AI, Mark Riley.

This newsletter by journalist Graham Lovelace covers the latest developments in generative AI and its impacts on human-made media. Subscribers receive a weekly update plus an occasional Quick Take on a breaking development.

Generative AI in the Newsroom

The Generative AI in the Newsroom is a collaborative project that explores the responsible use of generative AI in news production. It was launched as an initiative of the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern University in January 2023. Sign up for practical examples and tips on how to use gen AI to make your work easier.

Probably the best-established project that maps AI and journalism. The team at Polis, London School of Economics, has always got interesting updates. The tone is conversational and the content easy to understand, so you will not feel overwhelmed.

The newsletter also brings announcements about funding for AI projects and various collaborative initiatives for newsrooms. If you need one place to start learning about AI in journalism, this is it.

Finely Tuned is a quarterly guide to the intersection of AI and investigative journalism. It explores how to leverage AI for research and reporting, navigate its inherent risks, and report effectively on the technology itself.

Ben Tossell monitors the web so you do not have to. The daily newsletter features top AI product launches from the past 24 hours and should not take you more than five minutes to read. It is also very visual and you will be treated to the most bizarre illustrations by generative AI that will often give you a good chuckle.

A bit left of the field, this weekly newsletter's mission is to democratise AI ethics literacy. While technical mastery matters, exploring practical examples of ethical use of this technology is indispensable in the newsroom.

Looking for something less intense? Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for AI, can help you demystify this topic in a weekly email. She looks at breakthroughs in generative AI, as well as asking good questions about the problems and how to fix them.

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This article was originally published on 11 September 2023 and updated on 26 March 2026 with new newsletters.

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