This week on The Media Copilot, I sat down with Steven Brill, a legend in the journalism world and co-founder of NewsGuard, the company working to restore trust in news. Steven’s media legacy includes launching Court TV, creating American Lawyer magazine, and authoring bestsellers on health care, education, and much more. But his latest focus? Making sense of AI’s impact on information integrity.
In this episode, we dive into:
The bombshell NewsGuard report exposing a Russian propaganda campaign that infiltrated AI training data
What this means for platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity
How to fight misinformation inside the machine
Whether NewsGuard itself can stay unbiased — and how it handles critics
What’s next for NewsGuard in the AI era (including an exclusive announcement: NewsGuard’s TrueNews AI, a small language model that indexes only sites NewsGuard deems “not unreliable”)
If you care about the future of media, credibility, and the truth itself in a world shaped by AI, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.
Listen now to hear from Steven Brill on the fight to keep our information ecosystem clean — and how we all have a role to play.
Coming up: Free Webinar – April 10
I'm also hosting a live webinar on Thursday, April 10 with David Buttle, founder of DJB Strategies. We'll be taking a deep dive into AI substitution risk — how AI-powered search engines are summarizing the news, killing clicks, and reshaping publisher economics.
We'll cover:
What types of content are most at risk
Why AI search is disrupting audience engagement
Tactical strategies to protect and future-proof your content business
Visit mediacopilot.ai to register and secure your spot.
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This episode of The Media CoPilot was produced by Pete Pachal, Executive Producer Michele Musso, and with video/audio editing by the Musso Media team. Produced by Musso Media. © 2025 Musso Media. All rights reserved.
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