"Featuring diverse case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Eswatini, the collection explores how African newsrooms are adopting generative AI. Contributors analyse the use of AI presenters, audience perceptions of AI-generated content, gamification strategies in newsroo ... ms, and the barriers journalists face in accessing these technologies. Painting a picture of the complex political economy of AI-driven news production and consumption, the volume also addresses ethical concerns around AI appropriation, highlighting how existing legal frameworks struggle to regulate generative AI in journalism." (Publisher description) more

"This report brings together six discrete research and engagement activities over a three-year period (2022-24), drawing on fieldwork in seven countries (Australia, Germany, USA, UK, Norway, Switzerland, and France), and focuses on AI in journalism within three broad domains: AI-generated content in ... journalism, journalists’ perceptions of and use of AI in journalism, and news audiences’ perceptions of and reactions to this technology being used in journalism [...] These six research activities underscore the risks and opportunities posed and offered, respectively, by AI in journalism while also pointing to best-practice recommendations for the safe, responsible, and ethical use of AI within this industry. This output joins other reports that focus on AI in journalism (including those produced by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the BBC, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and the Centre for Media Transition at UTS) but largely adopts a distinct focus on multi-modal, visual AI and offers a broader scope over multiple domains (production, editing, and audience reception and interpretation). It also complements with qualitative depth, nuance, and richness the breadth of other survey work focused on AI and journalism, particularly in the domain of news audiences. This report aims to familiarise the reader with a wide array of AI in journalism use cases, provide grounding on the legal and ethical issues that journalists and audiences identify regarding this technology within journalism, and reveal news audiences’ expectations regarding how this technology should or should not be used. The report ends with a series of questions for journalists and news organisations to consider as they work through their experimentation with and guidelines around AI use in journalism." (Executive summary, pages 5-7) more