PHOTO: AI Technology affecting the way journalists work
The Medianet 2025 Media Landscape Report has shone a light on the concerns of over 500 surveyed journalists as it explores the impact of AI and social media on trust, fragmentation and bias in the media in a rapidly changing media landscape, ahead of the Federal election.
In some rural areas, closure of local newspapers and other media outlets have left journalists feeling vulnerable, while in the cities jobs are being lost as a direct result of new technology with 88% of respondents expressing concern about the impacts that AI/LLMs (artificial intelligence/large language model) could have on the overall integrity of quality journalism.
According to the report, uncertainty about the future and changes to workload were the two other most common greatest challenges experienced by journalists in 2024…