Several major news organizations are hosting reporter fellows with salaries paid by donor-supported AI journalism groups, such as the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, without always disclosing these relationships to their readers.

Disclosure Concerns

The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism places fellows with outlets like Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, paying them between $60,000 and $110,000. While some outlets are transparent about these funding relationships, others are not, raising questions about disclosure standards.

Tarbell has sponsored at least 28 journalists covering topics like AI safety, deepfakes, and AI in geopolitics. The group emphasizes that it does not set the direction of its reporters’ work and that its donors have no editorial control over the work of Tarbell fellows.

Transparency Efforts

Some outlets, like NBC News, have chosen to disclose connections to Tarbell at the bottom of their stories. However, others, such as TIME and The Verge, have not always done so. Tarbell requires fellows and outlets to be transparent about their placement, funding, and relationship with the organization.

Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.