Thoughts on Tech & Things Jason Michael Perry

Can a Newsroom Use AI Without Losing Your Trust?

Greg Morton - Banner

Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Greg Morton, data editor at The Baltimore Banner, to talk about what AI is actually doing inside a newsroom and why admitting you used it can cost you a reader.

Long before anybody called it AI, machines were writing sports recaps, earnings reports, and election results. What changed isn’t that machines write; it’s that now they can write about anything and you can’t tell. Greg and Jason get into the Banner’s published AI rules and what they mean on deadline, what happens to what people believe when the good reporting is behind a wall, and the junk is wide open, and how newsrooms are using these tools to get through document dumps no human could read in a lifetime. Greg was part of the team named a 2026 Pulitzer finalist for an investigation that tracked every city bus in Baltimore, every five seconds, for four months, to show why thousands of kids can’t get to school on time.

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