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Trust in the news just fell to 37% worldwide, an all-time low, and 62% of people now say they worry about what is real online. Recently we interviewed Jack Brewster, a Forbes 30 Under 30 journalist who left a career at Forbes and Newsweek to build something that actually fixes how people get their news. The whole issue circles that question: as AI floods the zone with cheap content, who gets to decide what is true, and how do you build a career doing something about it. The jobs below are full of people working on exactly that. Have a listen and tell me what you think.

Craig

This week on the Social Change Career Podcast, I talk with Jack Brewster, a journalist, Fulbright Fellow, and founder of Newsreel, about why he left newsroom reporting to take on a harder problem: how people actually find and trust the news. Jack covered misinformation and digital extremism at Forbes, Newsweek, and NewsGuard, earned a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and studied news avoidance among young people as a Fulbright researcher in Germany before starting his own company.

It has amazing insights on media and AI and impact careers. We get into the difference between misinformation and disinformation, why so many young people are tuning news out entirely, how fellowships like Fulbright can open a path to building something of your own, and the honest reality of startup life in the media world. If you care about the future of journalism, or you are thinking about a career where media and social impact meet, this one is for you.

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Five open roles at Principles of Intelligence
PrincInt · Remote-friendly · deadlines July 19–30
The nonprofit growing the AI safety field (and home of the PIBBSS Fellowship) is hiring across its whole operations backbone: a Finance Specialist, a Personal Assistant (with AIXI Labs), a Compliance & Operations Manager, two Events Coordinators, and a Senior Communications Associate. A rare chance to shape a young research org from the inside without being a researcher.

Technology Reporter, Business of Tech, AI & Power
Semafor · United States
Break stories on the money and power reshaping AI, at a global newsroom built around sharp, transparent reporting.

Strategic Advisor, Nonprofit Research and Advanced AI
AWS · Seattle, Arlington, New York, or San Diego
Help research nonprofits use advanced cloud and AI for genomics, climate modeling, and scientific discovery, advising leaders across the sector.

Consultant, AI Engineer
PATH · London or remote
Scale an AI platform that lets health workers digitize paper health records with a photo, already piloted in the DRC and expanding to millions of records a month.

Vice President of Expansion
TechCongress · Washington, DC (hybrid)
Lead the effort to place technologists inside state legislatures, building the technical expertise governments need to govern AI and emerging tech.

Associate Director, GeoTech Center
Atlantic Council · Washington, DC · apply by July 24
Help lead a growing portfolio on AI governance, responsible AI, and the geopolitics of emerging technology at a major policy institution.

Program Officer, International Program
Andrew Carnegie Foundation · New York · $150,000–$160,000
Shape grantmaking on peace, nuclear security, and emerging technologies at one of the oldest foundations in the country, finding and backing the ideas that keep disruptive tech from becoming a driver of conflict.

Director of Data Strategy & Insights
Elemental Impact · Honolulu, San Francisco, or New York
Build the data systems and AI tools that help a climate-tech investor measure impact across a portfolio of 160 companies.

Senior Associate, Streaming & Community Fundraising
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) · New York
Grow one of MSF's most inventive fundraising channels, building livestream and creator campaigns that fund medical humanitarian work in more than 70 countries.

Rule of Law Partnership and Organizing Lead
Public Citizen · Washington, DC
Build coalitions across universities, unions, faith groups, and civil society to defend democracy and the rule of law at a long-standing public-interest group.

Producer I, Network Booking and Specials
NPR · Washington, DC
Book and produce segments for national programs at one of the most trusted names in public media, shaping how millions hear the day's news.

Program Manager, Freedom to Learn
PEN America · New York or Washington, DC
Defend the freedom to read and teach, coordinating a national program that pushes back on book bans and educational censorship.

Deal Analyst
New Majority Capital · Remote (US, Boston/Providence hubs)
Help underrepresented entrepreneurs buy and grow small businesses, building the models behind a mission to close the ownership and wealth gap.

Board Members (volunteer)
Global Witness · Global (one London meeting a year) · closes July 30
Bring legal, digital, or financial expertise to the board of an investigative organization that challenges the companies driving climate and human-rights harms.

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Impact joke of the day. I asked a chatbot to fact-check itself. It thought about it, then confidently gave me two wrong answers and a footnote.

Four reads on AI, media, and trust. Links go to the original reporting.

Trust in news falls to 37% as AI reshapes how we read (Reuters Institute, Digital News Report 2026). The definitive annual survey finds trust at a new low, 62% now worried about fake news, and audiences drifting from newsrooms toward social feeds and AI chatbots that they trust even less. The backdrop to this week's episode.

The UN opens its Global Dialogue on AI Governance (UN News, July 1). As talks begin in Geneva on July 6, the UN's scientific panel lays out the stakes: two countries hold 90% of the world's AI computing power, and whether AI narrows or widens inequality depends on choices being made right now.

AI is supercharging misinformation after disasters (NPR). When a plane crashed in Louisville, false AI-generated articles and videos spread before investigators even arrived. A concrete look at how synthetic content erodes trust exactly when accurate information matters most.

A reporter's guide to spotting AI-generated content (Global Investigative Journalism Network). A practical, sharable field guide with seven techniques for telling real from synthetic under deadline pressure. Useful whether or not you work in a newsroom.

Jobs, jobs, jobs. The roles above are a handful of this week's picks. For the full, continually updated set of social-impact and tech-for-good openings across foundations, newsrooms, startups, and universities, the PCDN job board adds new postings daily.

Person to follow: Claire Wardle, Cornell professor, co-founder of First Draft and the Information Futures Lab, and one of the world's leading authorities on misinformation and verification. She is essential reading on how false information spreads and what actually works to counter it.

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