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Ibrahim Mukherjee

Oct 8, 2026, 6:19 AM

Prompt Engineering Principles for the Workplace.

Three golden rules for using artificial intelligence: be specific, the unknowns and verify what is missing. We keep making a basic mistake with artificial intelligence. We talk to it. It talks back. So we begin imagining somebody is in there. ChatGPT says,...

Kostis Konstantinou

Oct 3, 2026, 1:37 PM

Another Myth Falls Apart: Our Slain ‘Colleagues’

It was one of the most powerful narratives of the Gaza war: first dozens, then hundreds, of “journalists” were killed. Names on lists, photographs in tributes, numbers in headlines — and the same conclusion: Israel had made journalists targets. Except...

Oct 2, 2026, 7:00 PM

Journalism: The Clock Is Still Ticking

How 60 Minutes taught journalism to compete for attention—and what happened when the algorithm took over The fall of American journalism did not begin with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, or the algorithm. By the time millions of Americans began getting...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:06 PM

The AI Race Meets Reality

“The AI war has already begun, which is both the problem and part of the solution.” That is how I opened an article about a year ago. I meant that competition would produce unexpected results and make it harder...

Sep 16, 2026, 4:54 AM

NAZA, Collateral Murder, and Barbara Streisand

Boeing AH-64 Apache flying over Baghdad, Iraq.
Photo by Ahodges7 – "Apache over Baghdad". Marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons.

In 2010, WikiLeaks uploaded a compilation of leaked video that they entitled Collateral Murder. It details the killing of Iraqi Reuters employees by the US military after having mistakenly identified them as combatants as well as two other attacks...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:28 PM

When the facts are true, but the story may not be

During a stay in Turkey, I found myself doing something I normally don’t do when I travel: watching quite a lot of local television. Not because I understood Turkish. Quite the opposite. Whenever a news item caught my attention, I...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Sep 4, 2026, 3:14 PM

Escaping the ‘More is Less’ Trap

As Israel heads for one of the most important elections in its history (some would argue: the most critical), the public needs as much truthful information as possible. But that won’t be easy. In my blog post last week, I...

Ari Z. Zivotofsky

Aug 31, 2026, 11:56 PM

The Feathers of False Accusations: The cost of reporting without verifying

New outlets, including, or especially, Israeli ones such as the Times of Israel (TOI) and the Jerusalem Post, must start doing a better job at fact checking. Recently, another textbook example of how the canard of settler violence is...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 28, 2026, 6:21 AM

When it Comes to News, “More is Less”

Here’s a question to consider: when you see an interesting headline in the news, do you then read the entire article? Thirty years ago, your answer would have been “usually yes.” Today, it’s invariably going to be “hardly ever.”...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:10 PM

Beware the ‘Populist Bump’

Last week, Der Spiegel faced a media firestorm for its cover page placement of lead Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) Saxony-Anhalt candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Despite the accompanying article’s critical tone, commentators from renowned center-left media outlets lambasted the publication, arguing...

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