The implications of AI-driven tools on newsroom roles and the future of journalism By Jack Thompson
23rd July 2025
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Artificial intelligence data-driven tools have played a vital role within the newsroom in recent years.

 

It has created a fully automated projection of news stories and. audience analytics.

 

These ai-driven tools have revolutionized the news industry in further technology and the process of information has increased.

 

It has also been able to the Media ecosystem as traditional forms of newer media such as radio newspapers and television have become more compact and entwined with online video content and distribution through online media.

 

Artificial intelligence has been able to develop fast and simple to use research content for journalists to use In the Newsroom.

Also, artificial intelligence has been able to harvest data which makes it easier for the journalists in the Newsroom to retrieve stories or news item topics.

 

For example in the news department, artificial intelligence has stored archived videos which are easy to find and can be adapted and put into a news program and are less time-consuming than before when members of the News team had to go to and find the specific tape.

 

AI has also made producing news a lot more economical and cost-effective as a lot of journalists don't necessarily have to go to locations for new stories all the time.

 

Journalists can project the same story narrative to the target audience by using models which have been created by artificial intelligence.

 

Fluid news cycle many stories can become repetitive so sometimes artificial intelligence can be used to make slight modifications to the stories to suit the news output on that particular day and in my opinion but can make it a lot easier for the news editor and producer to create a media product.

 

In  a television news broadcast, I still believe that human interaction is vital to give emotion to the story and a news reader's presents can also give the story a lot more colour and I believe it's part of any news organizations brand to have personality within The Newsroom to create a high-value product.

 

Artificial intelligence in the newsroom has been used for example in the newspaper industry wear certain journalists have gone on work strikes and have joined Union groups, many journalist bosses have used artificial intelligence to slim down The Newsroom and they have still created a product that is still getting distribution.

 

For example, artificial intelligence can create the narrative of the trending topic topics fed into the process and the journalists read what is given by them.

 

Sometimes artificial intelligence technology can break down and it can cause the feed to be lost through online streaming and that has created problems for a lot of smaller news outlet who have had to make the adaptations to be commercially viable rather than producing high-quality news.

 

However, AI technology has been vital to many moments particularly when election results are given as it's easier for the audience to read off the data which creates a narrative for the story which is conveyed on screen.

 

It's very easy on the eye with slick graphics and production. It has an impact on a news corporation's brand and emotional connection with the audience.

 

Artificial intelligence has given photography it has been used in replace of human reporters for example in coverage of war zones and jungle fires sometimes in the past, that's where journalists had to risk their lives to get a story.

 

One of the problems of automation is that many people feel that it has just been created for product profit rather than having a positive impact on journalism. Research labs have been using it to cut down jobs within the media sector and cut down on local news in favor of more worldwide and national news as local news stations have had to make severe cuts or have potentially close down around the world as financial margins have been cut Newsroom resources have been slimmed down and that can have negative consequences for the news industry.

 

However, there has been a huge amount of analytical research within artificial intelligence on the height and its impact on n viewers on whether are they able to differentiate between what is artificial intelligence and what is human and in a lot of these characters, it has been very difficult to tell as it feels with the current trajectory of automation.

 

I feel a lot of the public has become desensitized two automation as they have seen it in car plants for example or even private hospitals and many elements in the private sector within the news business have now been using automation to produce news content at a faster rate for example getting stories out on TikTok and television simultaneously without having to spend heavily on workers.

 

There is going to be a very interesting future with automation as we humans are going to have to think about how fast are we going to have to move with technology and how are we going to adapt to o the news business. to keep creating good value content while keeping in line with the business's economic and business models.

 

It's going to be hard for consumers with artificial intelligence as many companies use the same software while it might feel on paper that there is plenty of choices, there are going to be a lot of stories that are going to get suppressed with more automated stories with recycled content from a lot of outlets.

 

I feel the future of journalism is going to be very difficult especially as a lot of local newspapers and local stations have already been cut to the bone in favor of artificially generated outlets and even more establishment chains have had to make big cuts for example in the Washington Post this year. And Rupert Murdoch's tabloid the sun has been losing profit this recent year but this could be a phase is television news can become more vital especially since the television business has evolved free streaming content and which has given new services more TV time in recent years.

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