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Columbia Journalism Review, An AI company wanted to buy my reporting notes (15 Oct 2026)

3 records were read from this source, dated 15 Oct 2026 to 18 Oct 2026.

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Last checked 19 Oct 2026

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Records read from this source
Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
One complete journalism reporting case (at least 50 documents in three file types: pitch, reporting notes, interview transcripts, FOIA responses, source documents, drafts, editor markup, the published piece and any correction), offered to a working journalist for a perpetual licence	Price observation	a thousand dollars per case per case (one story followed all the way through)	15 Oct 2026
Handshake AI and a freelance journalist (offer made to the author of the piece): price range, a newsroom's reporting file: notes, transcripts, drafts, editor markup, published piece and correction	Market record	$1,000 per case	15 Oct 2026
Handshake AI: Passing it on	Buyer contract clause	A draft Handshake contract, published by Columbia Journalism Review on 15 October 2026…	18 Oct 2026

One complete journalism reporting case (at least 50 documents in three file types: pitch, reporting notes, interview transcripts, FOIA responses, source documents, drafts, editor markup, the published piece and any correction), offered to a working journalist for a perpetual licence
Kind
Price observation
As stated
a thousand dollars per case per case (one story followed all the way through)
Dated
15 Oct 2026
Handshake AI and a freelance journalist (offer made to the author of the piece): price range, a newsroom's reporting file: notes, transcripts, drafts, editor markup, published piece and correction
Kind
Market record
As stated
$1,000 per case
Dated
15 Oct 2026
Handshake AI: Passing it on
Kind
Buyer contract clause
As stated
A draft Handshake contract, published by Columbia Journalism Review on 15 October 2026…
Dated
18 Oct 2026

Figures it feeds

$1,000 per datasetText and archives, offered to holders, per dataset

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