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Police officers smile after finding a toddler who had been reported missing for four days. An AI tool reporting on the mother’s child abandonment court appearance in September erroneously claimed she had abandoned her child “to go on vacation.” Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette

I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous

When we ask for news, we should expect generative AI tools to stick to the facts. But new research shows they don’t.
Some have claimed the news media forced President Joe Biden to abandon his race for reelection. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Biden dropped out − is the news media to blame?

Are journalists to blame for Biden dropping out? This assumes that the power of the press is significant and straightforward. It’s neither.
Devon Sanders, a statehouse reporter and student at the Lousiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication, interviewed State Rep. Katrina Jackson in 2018. Richard Watts

Student reporters fill crucial gap in state government coverage

Where regular reporters have disappeared, university-led statehouse reporting programs have stepped in.
The mass shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, Calif., is the latest in an endless string of gun violence tragedies. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Horror and anguish are playing out on repeat following the latest mass shooting – and the mental health scars extend far beyond those directly affected

Even people who are only indirectly exposed to these repeat tragedies, such as first responders and those affected by media coverage, can experience profound and long-lasting grief.
Exposure to videos of disasters can trigger post-traumatic stress symptoms in some children. Chokchai Poomichaiya / EyeEm via Getty Images

Disaster news on TV and social media can trigger post‑traumatic stress in kids thousands of miles away – here’s why some are more vulnerable

Children don’t have to be in physical danger for disaster images to have a powerful psychological impact.
Annie Storey holds a cross with a photo of her late son Alex Storey, before a march to mark the five-year anniversary of British Columbia declaring a public health emergency in the overdose crisis, in Vancouver, on April 14, 2021. CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Overdose crisis: The COVID‑19 pandemic has laid bare decades of drug policy failures

Across the country, overdose deaths have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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