The AI turn in journalism: Disruption, adaptation, and democratic futures.

 

Journalism: Theory, practice and critcism. Vol 27 n° 3 (March 2026); ISSN 1464-8849; DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251343518 

Autor: 

1. Tomás Dodds, Leiden University, Netherlands; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
    oddsrojas@wisc.edu; t.dodds.rojas@hum.leidenuniv.nl
    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4724-5307
   
   
2. Rodrigo Zamith, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA. 
    rzamith@umass.edu
   https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8114-1734
   
   
3. Seth C Lewis, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA. 
    sclewis@uoregon.edu
   https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7498-0599
   
   

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, automated journalism, AI turn, journalism, robot journalism. 

Abstract: In this essay, we argue that, unlike previous changes in digital media technologies over thepast few decades, this AI “turn” in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity andits relationship with audiences. While AI complicates and challenges some existingprofessional, social, political, and economic structures, it also offers new ways to realizedesired journalistic objectives that were previously considered to be impractical, if notimpossible. Drawing on four orienting ideas—adoption and hype, power and dependency,audiences and democratic implications, and education and empowerment—we unpackthe implications of this AI turn in journalism and the consequences for the future of thejournalistic field.  

Idioma: English. 

Publicación: Marzo 2026. 

Volumen: Vol. 27, número 3.  

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