Below is a selection of media coverage featuring my research and commentary. Articles are sorted by topic (but chronologically within the categories). Articles authored by me are marked with a * and my name in bold. This list does not include my own journalistic work for the period from 2012 to mid-2019 which I may add one day if I find the time.

AI, Information and News

• Adami, M., & *Simon, F. M.* (2026, April 8). A viral profile made him a lightning rod for journalism’s AI anxieties. He sees himself as a trailblazer. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Skalka, L. (2026, March 5). Hyperlocal AI with a million subscribers. Columbia Journalism Review.
• *Simon, F. M.* (2026, March 3). Advertising was always going to come for AI chatbots. The real question is how. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism & NIKKEI Digital Governance (Japanese).
• Oremus, W., & Nover, S. (2026, March 1). An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. The Washington Post.
• Craig, V. (2026, January 1). AI podcast presenters are here — but I’m not one of them: The question of my authenticity highlights the confusion felt in this age of media distrust. Financial Times.
• Borgers, M. (2026, January 5). „Predictions for Journalism 2026“: Was die KI-Revolution für Medien bedeutet. Deutschlandfunk.
• Borgers, M. (2026, January 5). Kultur und Wissenschaft: KI im Journalismus. Deutschlandfunk.
• *Simon, F. M.* (2025, December 5). The AI bubble may pop. People’s use of AI for information won’t. Nieman Lab.
• *Simon, F. M.* (2025, October 8). People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news. Nieman Lab.
• Stokel-Walker, C. (2025, September 16). Around one-third of AI search tool answers make unsupported claims. New Scientist.
• Bearne, S. (2025, September 9). Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic. BBC News.
• Stokel-Walker, C. (2025, August 14). Synthetic data is the new AI gold rush, but critics call it ‘data laundering’. Fast Company.
• Gerstein, J., & Sullivan, M. (2025, June 26). Can AI tools meet journalistic standards? So far, the results are spotty. Columbia Journalism Review.
• Zambrana, M. (2025, June 30). AI and journalism: This could be the beginning of a great codependency. Letras Libres.
• Reilly, L. (2025, May 28). More than 2 years after ChatGPT, newsrooms still struggle with AI’s shortcomings. CNN.
• Minsberg, T. (2025, May 21). A.I.-Generated reading list in Chicago Sun-Times recommends nonexistent books. The New York Times.
• Ford, M., & Eisele, I. (2025, May 17). Fact check: How trustworthy are AI fact checks? Deutsche Welle.
• Nierenberg, A. (2025, May 8). Agatha Christie, who died in 1976, will see you in class. The New York Times.
• The Times. (2025, March 10). Letter to the editor: An ethical AI. The Times.
• Guaglione, S. (2025, March 4). Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds. Digiday.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2025, February 23). Whatever happened to all those AI copyright lawsuits? The Daily Upside.
• *Simon, F. M. (2025, February 11). Is it a good idea to use AI to clone real journalists’ voices? It depends how you interpret the question. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Media Confidential Podcast (2024, December 19). AI: Powering newsrooms of the future? Prospect Magazine.
• *Simon, F. M. (2024, November 21). Neither humans-in-the-loop nor transparency labels will save the news media when it comes to AI. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Snow, J. (2024, November 4). AI is quietly revolutionizing the news: Here’s how. Quartz.
• Higgins, A. (2024, November 3). A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in A.I.-generated presenters. The New York Times.
• Mahadevan, A. (2024, November 1). ChatGPT rolls out a Google competitor with a skewed view of the news. Poynter.
• Streever, D. (2024, October 11). How is artificial intelligence being used in journalism now? What's coming next? WWXI News at NPR.
• *Simon, F. M. (2024, October 10). We need clarity about the deals between AI companies and news publishers. Here’s why. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Scrimgeour, G. (2024, September 11). An AI bot named James has my old local news job. Wired.
• *Simon, F. M., Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2024, July 2). How AI chatbots responded to questions about the 2024 UK election. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Orsi, J. (2024, June 27). We asked people about using AI to make the news. They’re anxious and annoyed. Poynter.
• *Simon, F. M. (2024, June 11). What works: Effective strategies for reporting on AI. EBU.
• *Simon, F. M., Adami, M., Kahn, G., & Fletcher, R. (2024, June 6). How AI chatbots responded to basic questions about the 2024 European elections right before the vote. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Guaglione, S. (2024, June 4). The pros and cons of publishers’ AI licensing deals. Digiday. (Wayback Machine)
• Swant, M. (2024, May 24). Why publishers fear traffic, ad declines from Google’s AI-generated search results. Digiday. (Wayback Machine)
• Heikkilä, M. (2024, May 14). What to expect at Google I/O: And why you still cannot trust AI search results. MIT Technology Review.
• Heikkilä, M. (2024, May 14). Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent. MIT Technology Review.
• Bomke, L., Jahn, T., & Holzki, L. (2024, May 10). OpenAI entwickelt offenbar KI-Suchmaschine. Handelsblatt.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2024, April 29). OpenAI inks licensing deal with the Financial Times to train chatbots. The Daily Upside.
• Miller, G. (2024, April 26). AI charges conversations at International Journalism Festival. Tech Policy Press.
• Little Reilly, M. (2024, April 22). Newsrooms are already using AI, but ethical considerations are uneven, Associated Press finds. Forbes.
• Adami, M., Leake, M., Suárez, E., Cherubini, F., Mercer, C., & Montalvo, T. (2024, April 18). International Journalism Festival 2024: What we learnt in Perugia about the future of news. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Petit, Q. (2024, April 18). Los expertos reivindican regular la inteligencia artificial en las noticias: Deben hacerlo los gobiernos, que la usan para marcar su agenda, y los medios, para informar. El País.
• Silverberg, D. (2024, March 14). Journalists are feeding the AI hype machine. BBC News.
• Gotfredsen, S. G. (2024, March 6). Q&A: AI in newsrooms: Revolution or retooling? Columbia Journalism Review.
• Shafer, J. (2024, February 27). Artificial intelligence and the media. Politico Magazine.
• Scire, S. (2024, February 12). AI adoption in newsrooms presents “a familiar power imbalance” between publishers and platforms, new report finds. Nieman Journalism Lab.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2024, February 5). Microsoft will pay Semafor to use AI for news reports. The Daily Upside.
• Wandhöfer, S. (2024, January 12). KI, Geldnot, Nachrichtenvermeidung: Was bringt das Medienjahr 2024? Deutschlandfunk.
• Guaglione, S. (2023, December 7). Media briefing: Publishers’ generative AI task forces have evolved into a more distributed model of experimentation. Digiday.
• Scire, S. (2023, December 5). Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do. Nieman Lab.
• Dudley, B. (2023, December 6). Free press roundup: Bellingham Daily cutting print days plus layoffs, AI. The Seattle Times.
• ETX Daily Up. (2023, December 6). Les Américains pensent que les articles rédigés par une IA seraient "une mauvaise chose". La Dépêche.

Misinformation, GenAI Misinformation, Political Communication

• Stokel-Walker, C. (2025, November 19).Misinformation sites have an open-door policy for AI scrapers. Fast Company.
• *Simon, F. M. (2025, October 1). AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy. Transformer.
• *Simon, F. M., & Altay, S. (2025, July 23). Consequences of a skewed discourse around generative AI and elections. Oxford Internet Institute.
• Durán San Juan, I. (2025, July 19). Por qué los humanos deberían importarnos más que la IA generativa en las elecciones de cualquier país. Infobae.
• *Simon, F. M., & Altay, S. (2025, July 17). Generative AI and elections: Why you should worry more about humans than AI systems. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Krietzberg, I. (2025, July 17). Murati’s 12B reveal, Nvidia’s Trump greenlight & an AI coding gut check. Puck.
• D’Agostino, S. (2025, July 14). AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop. The Bulletin.
• Wutscher, I. (2025, February 10). “AI Slop” ist das neue Spam. ORF Wissen.
• Bayley, S. (2025, February 7). Picture of Mexican president wearing a ‘Make America Mexicana Again’ hat is fake. Yahoo News UK.
• Merlan, A. (2024, September). How disinformation research came under fire. Mother Jones.
• Borchardt, A. (2024, June 24). Gesellschaft des Misstrauens. Internationale Politik.
• Allyn, B. (2024, June 3). 'All eyes on Rafah' is the Internet's most viral AI image. Two artists are claiming credit. NPR. (Wayback Machine)
• Gold, H. (2024, May 31). A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm. CNN. (Wayback Machine)
• Van den Boos, M. (2024, February 22). Waarom de vloedgolf van AI-nepnieuws vooralsnog uitblijft: Voor misleiden is AI niet nodig. NRC.
• ORF. (2024, June 2). Spuren von KI im Superwahljahr. Ö1.
• Hassan, J., & Dadouch, S. (2024, May 29). An image calling for “All Eyes on Rafah” is going viral. But it seems AI-generated. The Washington Post.
• Scott, M. (2024, April 16). Deepfakes, distrust and disinformation: Welcome to the AI election. Politico.
• Stechyson, N., & Fraser, A. (2024, March 26). Don’t believe your eyes — fake photos have been a problem for a long time. CBC News.
• Adami, M. (2024, March 15). How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Scott, M. (2023, December 7). Global climate change talks for TikTok generation. Politico.
• Bedingfield, W. (2023, October 30). Generative AI is playing a surprising role in Israel-Hamas disinformation. Wired.
• Spotti, T. (2023, October 28). Intelligenza artificiale e misinformazione, uno studio: “Paure esagerate”. Sky TG24.
• Mahadevan, A. (2023, October 19). As misinformation surges during the Israel-Hamas war, where is AI? Poynter.
• Hassan, J. (2023, August 9). AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for. The Washington Post.
• Manavis, S. (2023, June 14). Tarnished brand. Prospect Magazine.
• Tijani, A. (2023, May 22). How AI-generated images are complicating efforts to combat disinformation. International Journalists’ Network.
• Walter, J. D. (2023, May 10). Faktencheck: Wie erkenne ich KI-generierte Websites? Deutsche Welle.
• Rashid, R. (2023, April 28). Reports said actor died after surgery to look Korean. Was he AI? Al Jazeera.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2022, May 15). Elon Musk claims Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump amplified Trump’s voice among the right. That’s not quite true. Business Insider.
• Porter, T. (2021, February 23). How Fox News hosts started attacking COVID-19 vaccines after Biden took over the rollout from Trump. Business Insider.
• Venkataramakrishnan, S. (2021, December 16). Twitter spaces on disinfo as a viral construct. Financial Times.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2020, November 5). Twitter did a better job than Facebook at reining in Trump’s false election posts, misinformation experts say. Business Insider.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2020, November 3). Trump’s campaign booked out YouTube’s homepage for Election Day. YouTube won’t let that happen again — but insists it’s nothing to do with Trump. Business Insider.
• Clarke, L. (2020, October 15). How the Cambridge Analytica scandal unravelled. New Statesman.
• Venkataramakrishnan, S. (2020, October 27). Growing numbers disconnected from Covid-19 news, suggests new report. Financial Times.
• Hamilton, I. A. (2020, October 4). Easily overblown, little-understood, and dangerous: Why we need to understand political microtargeting. Business Insider.
• Venkataramakrishnan, S. (2020, August 25). The real fake news about Covid-19. Financial Times.
• Scire, S. (2020, July 23). Daily Covid-19 news consumption is dropping in the U.K., especially among women and younger audiences. Nieman Lab.
• Ball, P., & Maxmen, A. (2020, May 27). The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories. Nature.
• Wong, J. C. (2020, April 10). Tech giants struggle to stem ‘infodemic’ of false coronavirus claims. The Guardian.
• Brakus, A. (2020, April 9). Prema Reutersovom institutu, najviše dezinformacija kreirano je manipuliranjem i izvrtanjem točnih informacija. Faktograf.
• Davis, S. (2020, April 9). Majority of coronavirus misinformation ‘twists and reworks facts’, study finds. Euronews.
• Greenspan, R. E. (2020, April 9). Celebrities, politicians, and influencers are largely accountable for the spread of false coronavirus information, according to a new study. Business Insider.
• Tran, K. (2020, April 9). Spread of coronavirus misinformation bolsters the case for regulating Big Tech. Variety.
• The Quint. (2020, April 8). 900% increase in fact-checks around COVID-19 in 3 months: Study. The Quint.
• Benton, J. (2020, April 8). “Reconfigured” or purely fabricated? Coronavirus misinformation comes in multiple forms and demands multiple solutions. Nieman Lab.
• Waterson, J. (2020, April 8). Influencers among ‘key distributors’ of coronavirus misinformation. The Guardian.
• O’Brien, C. (2020, April 8). Celebrities and politicians are rapidly spreading coronavirus misinformation. VentureBeat.
• O’Sullivan, D. (2020, April 8). Twitter struggles to combat coronavirus misinformation, according to study. CNN.
• Guichard, G. (2020, April 8). Coronavirus: Twitter, mauvais élève de la lutte contre la désinformation. Le Figaro.
• Lubbadeh, J. (2020, April 8). Lügen in Zeiten von Corona. Die Welt.
• Rauffmann, T. (2020, April 7). Wie Corona-Falschmeldungen aussehen. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• Timberg, C. (2020, April 7). On Twitter, almost 60 percent of false claims about coronavirus remain online — without a warning label. The Washington Post.

AI and Democracy

• Mantzarlis, A. (2025, December 17). Elon Musk is this year’s king of digital deception. Indicator.
• Meier, C. J. (2025, December 12). Die Kraft des Chatbot-Arguments: Können KI-Modelle Menschen in politischen Debatten beeinflussen? RiffReporter.
• Herrmann, S. (2025, December 7). «Schockierend grosser Effekt» – wie Chatbots Wählerinnen und Wähler beeinflussen können. Der Bund.
• Holland, M. (2025, December 5). AI chatbots can change political preferences more than election advertising. Heise Online.
• Stieler, W. (2025, December 5). KI im Wahlkampf: Wie Chatbots unsere Wahlentscheidung beeinflussen. t3n – MIT Technology Review News.
• Hegemann, L. (2025, December 4). Kann KI beeinflussen, wen wir wählen? Zeit Online.
• Sica, J. (2025, December 4). Kann die Konversation mit Chatbots die politische Meinung ändern? Der Standard.
• Herrmann, S. (2025, December 4). Wie Chatbots Wähler beeinflussen. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• *Simon, F. M. (2025, January 20). What should we make of Meta killing fact-checking? NIKKEI Digital Governance. (Japanese)
• Murray, C. (2024, December 27). How we were deepfaked by election deepfakes. Financial Times.
• Heikkilä, M. (2024, September 18). AI-generated content doesn’t seem to have swayed recent European elections. MIT Technology Review.
• *Simon, F. M., McBride, K., & Altay, S. (2024, September 6). Superwahljahr: Warum der Einfluss von KI nicht unser größtes Problem ist. t3n.
• *Simon, F. M., McBride, K., & Altay, S. (2024, September 3). AI’s impact on elections is being overblown. MIT Technology Review. (Wayback Machine)
• Ball, J. (2024, June 12). Fifteen ideas for a better Britain. The New European.
• Gallo, N. (2024, February 21). Élections et désinformation : Quand le discours alarmiste sur l’intelligence artificielle est remis en cause par des chercheurs. De Facto.

Miscellaneous

• Alfred, C. (2020, June 18). Refugee journalists bring access to stories that would otherwise be missed. Nieman Reports.
• Granger, J. (2019, July 18). The talent question: Why newsroom culture needs to change. Journalism.co.uk.
• Walker, J. (2019, July 16). Young journalists demand better work-life balance and worry about poor pay, study shows. Press Gazette.
• Müller-Lancé, K. (2019, July 15). Einerlei. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• Tagesspiegel. (2019, July 15). Vielfalt im Journalismus: Warum sich Medienhäuser mit dem Nachwuchs so schwertun. Der Tagesspiegel.
• Granger, J. (2019, June 5). Online news gradually shifts away from free content and towards pay models. Journalism.co.uk.
• Lozano, V. (2019, May 17). Internet lleva al beneficio a The Guardian. El Mundo.