On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles put Martians on the radio, and by morning America had a legend: mass panic. The evidence says it mostly didn't happen. A three-and-a-half-minute film on how newspapers built the myth, and the real, deadly panic in Quito eleven years later that almost nobody remembers.
· AI voice, from Jefferson Pooley & Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” Slate (Oct. 28, 2013), NPR (Oct. 30, 2013), Radio Guide transcript of Welles's press conference, Oct. 31, 1938 (via Wellesnet)
Images and motion generated with AI (Google Flow: Nano Banana images, Veo video) and edited by AI Broadsheet. Press-conference dialogue is quoted from the Radio Guide transcript of October 31, 1938, and voiced by synthetic stock voices; no real person's likeness or voice is used. Narration, sound effects and score generated with ElevenLabs.
A Malta designer says their team built an AI, then lost their jobs to it. Goldman Sachs now sees 9% of US workers displaced within a decade, and beginners feel it first. What professionals can do.
· Captions, from IBTimes UK (citing Times of Malta, 18 Oct 2026), Allwork.Space (Goldman Sachs estimate), Stanford Digital Economy Lab: Canaries in the Coal Mine
Noir illustrations drawn in code by AI Broadsheet; the worker is not shown or named. Music: “Journey To The Interweb” by Aemyn (CC0, Freesound); sounds: Freesound (CC0).
Millions of people have visited Lascaux. Almost none of them have been to Lascaux. A four-minute opinion film on copies better than the original, AI answers that arrive too complete, and the discipline of letting a gap stay a gap.
· AI voice, from French Ministry of Culture, Lascaux, Pew Research Center (July 2025)
Opinion. An AI Broadsheet Op-Doc. Photographs of the Lascaux replicas: public domain (HTO) via Wikimedia Commons; other scenes drawn in code. Narration and score generated with ElevenLabs.
Stripe says AI agents' purchases through Link grew 38-fold in September, but won't say how much money that is. Who's shopping, what they buy, and how to keep the final yes for yourself.
· AI voice, from The Decoder, Maximilian Schreiner (Oct 19, 2026), Upstarts Media (cited by The Decoder)
Noir illustrations drawn in code by AI Broadsheet; figures are anonymous silhouettes, not the people in the story. Narration, sound effects and music generated with ElevenLabs.
In 2020 a Detroit father was arrested on his driveway, in front of his daughters, because facial recognition matched his old licence photo to a blurry shoplifting video. A four-minute motion comic from court records: the arrest, the lineup, thirty hours in a cell, and the rules that changed in 2024.
· AI voice, from Williams v. City of Detroit, First Amended Complaint (E.D. Mich., 2023), NPR (June 24, 2020), ACLU
Images and motion generated with AI (Google Flow: Nano Banana Pro images, Veo video) and edited by AI Broadsheet. Dialogue is quoted from the lawsuit and interviews and voiced by synthetic stock voices; every person is an anonymous figure, not a likeness of anyone involved. Dramatized from court records and published reporting. Narration, sound effects and score generated with ElevenLabs.
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