Even as OpenAI is fighting copyright infringement cases with news publications and content producers across the world including in India, the AI pioneer has launched the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a digital learning hub designed to help journalists and publishers integrate artificial intelligence into their workflows. But what happens when journalists feed all the material collected through painstaking research and legwork into an AI system to make their work easier?

As the India Today Group marks 50 years, it has launched a five-part documentary series titled India Today @ 50, tracing the journey of the media house and its role in shaping Indian journalism.

Independent journalist Pankaj Mishra, 50, died after being assaulted at his home in Dehradun’s Rajpur area on Monday night. Police arrested two men — Amit Sehgal, a digital media journalist, and Parthoshil Seal — after reviewing CCTV footage and witness statements.

In some bright news, HSC results get coverage, crime is down in the NT, but most is still Bondi-related with the funeral for 10-year-old Matilda, a police stop, 'terror cops swoop', 'our nation needs a mourner in chief', and '$500K to find Angie's killer' up north. All that and more in today's news roundup. Stories and pictures by Harry Brill, Peter Jenkins and Eliza Barr, Phillip Coorey, Jonathan Shapiro and Emma Rapaport, James Massola, Paul Sakkal, Michael Read, Richard Ferguson, Ben Packham and Geoff Chambers. Liam Mendes and Lachlan Leeming, Henry Ergas, John Kaila, Jessica Wang and James O'Doherty, Matthew Benns, Anthony Dowsley, Eli Green, Peter Jenkins, Charles Chadwick, James Morrow, Josh Hanrahan and Madeline Crittenden, Jake Gramenz and Perry Duffin, Natassia Chrysanthos, Nick Newling and Brittany Busch, Eryk Bagshaw, Julie Power, Lucy Macken, and Harriet Alexander, Kate Geraghty, James Brickwood and Jamie Barrett.

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati’s OTT platform WAVES has reached 80 lakh downloads in its first year since launch.

Prasar Bharati has drafted a Content Syndication Policy, 2025, aimed at expanding cultural outreach while monetising its content in line with its public service role.

Meher Castelino, one of the earliest and most influential voices in Indian fashion journalism, has passed away at the age of 81. A trailblazer who helped define how fashion was reported and understood in India, she is remembered as both a chronicler and shaper of the industry.

The Pune Union of Working Journalists (PUWJ) marked its 86th foundation day with a celebration honouring journalists and journalism students for their outstanding work. Meritorious students from Savitribai Phule Pune University were also recognised.

“According to a source” and its Hindi equivalent, “sutron ke anusar,” appear so routinely in news stories that readers often skim past them. Yet behind those few words lies one of journalism’s most delicate relationships: a bond built on trust, risk, and mutual responsibility.

The Editors Guild of India has congratulated senior journalist Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty on her election as President of the Press Club of India, along with the newly elected panel of office bearers.

A delegation of journalists and public relations officers from Chhattisgarh visited the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly as part of an educational study tour. The delegation met Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani and discussed the role of media in a democracy, followed by a group photograph.

A 6.09-crore DD documentary fronted by a popular influencer quietly migrated to private YouTube channels, breaching rules meant to govern public broadcasting. The project was formally awarded to one firm, but executed by another linked to the influencer ecosystem, despite Prasar Bharati’s own subcontracting bar. Key paperwork appeared months after the broadcasts, long after red flags were raised. Taken together with the government’s growing comfort handing awards, contests and high-profile interviews to creators over journalists, the episode signals something deeper: a parallel publicity system using taxpayer funds, but without the scrutiny newsrooms demand.

Veteran consumer tech journo Alex Kidman is feeling honoured, albeit a little bit old he jokes, after being awarded the Kester Lifetime Achievement Award at the Consensus IT Writers Awards.

The Bondi massacre and its fallout, both political and emotional, continues to fill the front pages, with reams inside the papers too, but there's also some joy as HSC students quietly celebrate their successes this morning. Stories and pictures today by Phillip Coorey, Michael Read, Nicola Smith and Jessica Sier, Christopher Harris, Nigel Gladstone and Cindy Yin, Emily Kowal, Chip Le Grand, Shaun Carney, Anthony Galloway , Nick McKenzie, Matthew Knott, Perry Duffin and Sherryn Groch, Dennis Shanahan, Stephen Rice, Liam Mendes and Mohammed Alfares, Kate Geraghty, Nathanael Cooper, Anna Shreeves, Peter Jenkins and Vanessa Marsh, James Morrow, James O'Doherty, Peter Jenkins, Madeleine Crittenden, Harrison Finlay, Eliza Barr, Zara Powell, Derrick Krusche, Matthew Benns, Mark Morri, Josh Hanarahan and Peter Jenkins, Helen Trinca and Geoff Chambers, Christine Middap, Joanna Panogopolous and Elizabeth Pike, and Riley Walter.

The inaugural VOICE Fellowship for journalists commenced at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, on Tuesday. The five‑day residential programme, held from December 16 to 20 under the institute’s CARE Project, focuses on climate, environment and public‑health communication.