If 2023 felt tumultuous, 2024 seems to have gone completely off the rails. Poynter’s media business experts dig into the causes — and effects.
As some news outlets experiment with automated journalism tools, the mistakes are many, and would get a human reporter fired.
“There are other big questions hanging over the program, like whether it has actually helped stave off the collapse of newsrooms.”
Roughly 72% of local journalists in a study of more than 500 participants reported experiencing personal burnout and 70% reported experiencing work-related burnout, per a survey published in late April by the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
The New York Times and NBC News are among the media companies that have started preliminary discussions about potential protections against generative AI systems. Digital Content Next, the digital media’s trade organization, published seven generative AI principles this week to help guide discussion. “It’s the beginning of what is going to be a hellfire,” Axios CEO Jim VandeHei said in an interview.