The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Future of Journalism

Abstract

Apart from the basic domain of human-computer collaborations, multifaceted AI is now getting involved in the future of journalism in diverse ways, like influencing the two steps of news creation - the content part and the personalization part, for example, and the editorial decision-making too. This study identifies and addresses the role that AI currently plays in the journalism industry with a special regard to content generation through automated journalism tools and personalized news delivery. With the aid of AI technologies such as natural language processing, machine learning, data analytics, among others, newsrooms are now able to create content quickly, customize news feeds for individual readers, and new ways to improve the user interaction practices. However, the use of AI systems creates a balance between automated tasks and human journalism since ethics, trust-credibility, and accountability are all areas affected. Both the literature review and the case studies discuss the benefits arising, but also the drawbacks coming with AI application in the press industry, as well as ways to integrate it in the newsrooms in the future.