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EPISODE · Jul 7, 2026 · 17 MIN

Fake pitches, real problems: AI journalist impersonators

from Lake Effect Spotlight · host WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Nicholas Hune-Brown is an editor at a nonprofit online magazine called The Local. It covers health and social issues in Toronto, Canada. Nick has shared how, as an editor, he loves to give new writers a platform. But everything changed when he received a suspicious pitch from a writer named Victoria Goldiee.   As Nick took a closer look, it turns out the writer wasn’t who she seemed. Nick joins Lake Effect's Xcaret Nuñez to share his investigation into an AI freelancer — and what it reveals about the future of journalism. 

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