Every newsroom has its rituals—the coffee, the chase for a quote, the scramble before a deadline. Into that routine walks a new tool that feels equal parts highlighter, filing cabinet, and sounding board. Used well, it can help reporters write cleaner drafts and interrogate facts with less friction. Used poorly, it can amplify noise. This piece is a practical map for journalists who want the first outcome, not the second, with a clear-eyed look at how to fold ChatGPT into daily reporting. ChatGPT is a language model: it predicts text, not truth...

Most of us learned to “search” by firing short queries into a box and opening a dozen tabs. Then work moved into chat. Now a conversation can kick off a web query, read the right pages, and hand back sources in one place. This guide shows you how to set up and apply chat-based web discovery—what many call ChatGPT search—so you can move from hunch to sourced answer without losing your train of thought. When people say ChatGPT can “search the web,” they’re talking about a model that’s allowed to browse...