News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

49% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists' was $57,500, or $27 per hour

'News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists' were paid 19.6% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Des (Highly likely) 2 months ago

Generative AI is getting a lot better. It's a real threat that jobs depending on the written word will die out for the cheaper machine work.

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lili 7 months ago

I think that being a journalist requires too much human skills that can not be replaced by AI or robots.
First of all, you need to pick the subject. Then, you need to find information about the subject and we can think that this part is made online, but the journalist is supposed to be in the field to really comprehend what is happening. Also, for a journalisitc work, we need pictures that probably can't be taken by robots because a picture should, before anything else, create emotion. And the most important thing that can't and won't be replaced by an AI (if so, we human are probably dead) is the sensibility, the point of view, the detail, the humanity of an article.
So maybe, what could be made by the AI, in my opinion, is the writing. We could for instance create an AI software that create a really good journalistic text if we give it all the information found and the point of view and feeling we want to give to the article.

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Indignant Reporter (Low) 7 months ago

Ya'll put us into a big bucket. For reporters, like me, who go to meetings, talk to people, dig through public records, fight with the government to get those records, and more, AI is not going to replace what we do. AI is not going to go to the home of the mother whose son was killed in some tragedy, gain her trust and respect and give her the chance to share her story. Not in the same way at least. And AI is not going to discretely call around people who worked with a former governor and come back with 60 inches showing how she misused public funds. I could go on...

For talking heads on CNN, sure... I'm not sure how AI will impact them, and I frankly don't think a lot about people in those jobs. For journalists who have the unfortunate job of churning out and aggregating the hell out of as many local stories as possible (think Newsweek, NYPost, and any major New York media outlet), those dudes will probably be easy to replace. Honestly, though, I hope we just move on from that s*** as an industry.

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Sebastián (Uncertain) 1 year ago

We don't know yet what the future of journalism is, less with the "interference" of AI. Could be helpful as a writer of repetitive stuff or a possible danger as will take the job away from those who write the most basic content.

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Tomás 5 months ago

I think AI wil justo end up being a tool for journalist, not replace them, the job requires to much human interaction for an AI to do.

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Stan (Moderate) 1 year ago

We have AI news outlet channels on Youtube now… Plus more and more people are seeking unbiased truthful report which is something humans cant do. AI could definitely achieve that!

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Daniel Xavier (Low) 1 year ago

There is no way for a robot to steal a job from a journalist, not really in any area of ​​knowledge in the humanities because in this job subjectivity is necessary, something that no AI has.
After all, they are pre-programmed mathematical machines with some information over the internet, that is, without the internet they cannot live, after all they are computers. Creativity, on the other hand, is diverse and does not need Information to exist and just see a child who has never had knowledge in any area or has any previous information, she is already creative

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Marcel (Highly likely) 1 year ago

chat gpt, bard, their expansion is unavoidable and just some of journalists will survive (whom are on front line)

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Mvcart (No chance) 1 year ago

They deal with humans, that's hard

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BibirMengkeroet (Low) 2 years ago

We already have AI that is good enough for writing texts. It's called GPT-3. However, news reporting requires transparency. I think AI would assist journalists instead of replacing them

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Daniel (Highly likely) 2 years ago

Journalism is a very simple task for a robot to do. It's just reading the daily newspaper, presenting it, and that's it. A ridiculously easy task. Just put some charisma into it, and the job is done. But the media and journalists have a great influence, so they should try to stop it.

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G 1 year ago

Who do you think writes the content on the newspaper?

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uncertainjournalist (Moderate) 2 years ago

Not all journalists, reporters etc. will lose their job but a high number of them will lose them. Because media is a diverse sector and the definition of journalist per se is ambiguous. The one who writes news on a website is a journalist, and the one who speaks on tv is also a journalist.

In conclusion, I foresee that a notable amount of journalists will lose their jobs due to the AI.

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Noel Wilson (Uncertain) 2 years ago

Social media algorithms are learning to make news narratives from basic inputs

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