Generative AI isn’t a real solution to the issues facing newsrooms. Student journalists are right to point that out.

One freelancer said he's been offering editors access to his Google Docs version histories as evidence that he does the writing himself.

Defector almost didn’t exist. When 19 former Deadspin staffers — who’d resigned in November 2019 after parent company G/O Media told them to “stick to sports” — decided to launch a new website, “we ...