The New York Times [Gift Article] – A.I. has set off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls – Artificial intelligence is sweeping through newsrooms, transforming the way journalists around the world gather and disseminate information. Traditional news organizations increasingly use tools from companies like OpenAI and Google to streamline work that used to take hours: sifting through reams of information, tracking down sources and suggesting headlines. In some cases, including at Fortune and Business Insider, publications have explored using A.I. to write full articles, notifying readers they intend to use it for drafts. Almost all of the news organizations have some guardrails in place to prevent errors, such as requiring a human to review anything that A.I. writes before it is published. But some embarrassing errors have appeared nonetheless, including from top publications such as Bloomberg, Business Insider and Wired. And many journalists have also been left to wonder: Will A.I. replace journalism jobs in an already fast-shrinking market — or, rather, which jobs?
A.I. is an extraordinary tool for journalists,” said Stephen Adler, a former editor in chief of Reuters who now runs the Ethics and Journalism Initiative at New York University. “It excels at analyzing large data sets, organizing notes, checking spelling and grammar, even pointing out possible flaws in a story. But, as with much of technology, it comes with significant risks.” The stakes are incredibly high for the news industry. Over the past several decades, media executives watched as the internet upended their business, laying waste to classified advertising and siphoning away readers to social media. And many have come to realize they were flat-footed in the face of the technology transformation, giving away news content in the hopes of clawing back some digital advertising revenue.
See also:
- Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment (Digiday)
- AP makes its archive AI-ready to tap the enterprise RAG boom (Digiday)
- Time launches new AI agent (Axios)
- Most journalists use AI; few newsrooms have policies (E&P)
- Media literacy, not AI machines, will define journalism (Euractiv)
- Reality Re-Imag(in)ed. Mapping Publics’ Perceptions and Evaluations of AI-Generated Images in News Contexts [paywall] Published online: 19 Oct 2025
