US EditionThe Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers
- The Washington Post launched a new online opinion section called Ripple in April 2025 to publish articles from outside newspapers, Substack writers, and nonprofessional contributors.
- This initiative arose from CEO Will Lewis’s efforts to reduce costs, generate new revenue sources, and expand the paper’s audience beyond coastal elites to as many as 38 million adults.
- Ripple uses AI, specifically the Ember writing tool, to coach nonprofessional writers with articles reviewed by human editors before publishing outside the paywall.
- A Washington Post study showed AI tools scored below 70 percent accuracy on diverse text types, illustrating AI’s current limitations in producing fully reliable content.
- The program signals The Post's shift toward broader engagement and potentially lower editorial costs, although some industry observers express skepticism due to past controversies and AI challenges.
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If AI Is The Future Of Big-Time Journalism, Count Me Out
I trust it will not come as much of a surprise if I tell you that the Grande Dame of Washington D.C. journalism, The Washington Post, is in the midst creating a new quasi-op-ed online section of the paper devoted to publishing “opinion articles from other newspapers across America, writers on Substack and eventually nonprofessional writers,” according to an article in the New York Times. The program, called “Ripple,” which I take as a direct ins…
Is AI Generated Crap Going to Be the Future of Big-Time Journalism?
Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV I trust it will not come as much of a surprise if I tell you that the Grande Dame of Washington D.C. journalism, The Washington Post, is in the midst creating a new quasi-op-ed online section of the paper devoted to publishing “opinion articles from other newspapers across America, writers on Substack and eventually nonprofessional writers,” according to an article in the New York Times. The…
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Mired in financial losses, the Washington Post intends to pivot its “news” coverage by bringing in outside, “non-professional” writers and artificial intelligence (AI). The new initiative will open the Post “to many published opinion articles from other newspapers across America, writers on Substack, and eventually nonprofessional writers,” according to the New York Times. The official writers from other newspapers and Substack will be edited by…
NY Times: WaPo to Add ‘Nonprofessional Writers’
The Washington Post is aiming to bring on Substack and “nonprofessional writers” to its website but with one caveat: writer’s submissions must first pass through an AI filter, or “editor,” before reaching the eyes of the Post’s editors for publication, four people familiar with the project told The New York Times on Tuesday. The shakeup comes in an attempt to keep the paper afloat after suffering millions of dollars in losses for years. “In a pr…
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