How we’re using AI

In recent years, we’ve heard about GenAI producing error-ridden news stories, publishers suing to protect their news from Big Tech data-grabs, newsroom guidelines on GenAI use and grand predictions about how GenAI might reshape reporting. But all of that can feel far removed from how journalists actually grapple with GenAI in their daily work. 

In a collaboration between CJR and the University of Southern California’s AI for Media and Storytelling Initiative, we asked a diverse group of reporters, editors, executives and others across the news industry: How does your work involve AI, for good or ill? When does AI matter, and how does it make you feel about your craft, identity or professional future? When do you welcome AI into your work and when do you protect your work from it?

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