Clare Spencer
Reporter for generative-ai-newsroom.com, figuring out when (and when not) to use GenAI in news production.
- Do you know what would be a cool tool for students which short term memory issues... A live transcription and search tool that accompanies you in the lecture and, once you drift off and then think of a question, rather than asking it to the lecturer, ask the tool if they have answered it yet.
- Reposted by Clare SpencerA new bill in the NY state legislature would require news orgs to label any content “substantially composed, authored, or created" with generative AI. It would also require that humans review that content before publication. More details @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-ne...
- Reposted by Clare SpencerUpdated the tracker to include OpenAI and Axios's partnership to expand Axios Local coverage to nine new communities tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
- Today's addition is a partnership between OpenAI and TIME centered around fostering AI literacy tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
- ElevenLabs has raised $500 million in a Series D funding and intends to use it on ElevenAgents, its enterprise platform for voice and conversational AI, "to support customer experience, sales and marketing, and internal workflows with interactive voice agents". elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d
- My brother and I "pair vibe code" every Saturday morning. I've taken this screen grab of part of what we were doing today on n8n to make the point that no code is often not no code. There is so much previous knowledge of coding needed here. Someone who has never coded would be lost
- This law firm predicts we'll see "aggressive plaintiff strategies to unlock proprietary training information through discovery" in the AI intellectual property court cases this year. www.debevoise.com/insights/pub...
- Reposted by Clare SpencerNEW: News publishers are limiting Internet Archive access to prevent AI crawlers from using the digital library as a backdoor to their content. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I confirmed The Guardian and The New York Times have put in place new restrictions. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
- I'd love to find the perfect workflow for a journalist who records everything. So I'm excited to hear there are rumours of Apple making a wearable pin with a microphone and camera. There has been push back to mis-use of meta's glasses so lots to iron out in the consent/privacy field first.
- I recently finished a post grad diploma in journalism, innovation and leadership and my conclusion was: it's challenging right now for news orgs to make long term plans When they don't know: What's Jony Ive building? Will it change the interface through which we consume info? Will it take off?
- Bloomberg has launched a chat bot called ASKB, according to @tedmerz.bsky.social on LinkedIn:
- I've been thinking about how transcription and then semantic search help me with my work carrying out long qualitative interviews with my job. And then I thought about how it will not just be journalists who are helped. And THEN I thought about...
- I am too nervous to try out the new presenter of In Our Time for my insomnia. Melvin Bragg was just perfect. He kept those academics in a perfect state of orderly calm that I found helped lull me to sleep within 25 minutes. Could insomniacs be could be a use case for synthetic voices?
- Cloudflare has bought AI data marketplace Human Native. This is important because it's a twist in the ongoing question of "is anyone going to get paid to create content in the AI age?"
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- Who here has worked with documents from PACER (US court documents?)
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- My latest story has taken me back to the first time I ever voted. I was 19. During the day I was working as an office junior in a paper merchants. At night I cleaned offices, in the mornings and weekends I cleaned supermarkets. I didn't have time to pay attention to the news...
- The part of Reuters’ digital trends report I am really excited about is the hint newsrooms intend to focus more on original journalism and investigations. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-m...
- However, this involves change management. 1/ the newsrooms I have experience of tended to verify and retell, rather than find stories, this means the generation of editors and managers now may have never learned how to do original journalism.
- Well done Press Gazette for trying to put an end to a specific form of low quality inaccurate content in news stories. Slop existed before AI but because of AI it is even more important than ever to try and reduce the flow of slop. pressgazette.co.uk/news/named-5...
- ICYMI OpenAI launched the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations. academy.openai.com/public/clubs...
- It’s going to be interesting to watch how meta glasses fare over 2026. I am divided.
- There has been a discussion rumbling on for years now about how newsrooms will fundamentally change to deliver information in a format for machines rather than a finished product for humans. GenAI has reinvigorated this discussion. And it appears again in the Nieman Lab predictions for 2026:
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- I experimented with an AI tool recently to see how useful it would be for journalists and it got me thinking about how work would have been easier on a specific story I wrote years before. After interviewing a manager at a factory I received a message threatening lawyers. It was hairy...
- A trend that ratcheted up in 2025 - News organisations added the chatbot feature. Washington Post Time Magazine USA Today Daily Star … are some that come to mind.
- I keep noticing people mention information needs instead of news needs. This doesn't have to be a competition - people have a need for information. Some of that information is new (news) and some of that information was true a while back.
