New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects: How Second-generation Newsroom Innovation Labs are Changing the News Ecosystem

Cools, Hannes; Gorp, Baldwin Van; Opgenhaffen, Michaël

doi:10.1080/17512786.2022.2097940

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“…The results show that Botlitica has significantly fastened journalists' skills to identify propaganda strategies across the board. Overall, tools such as Botlitica with a transparency-centred design, could help second generation Newsroom Innovation Labs (Cools, Van Gorp, & Opgenhaffen, 2022), evolving vis-à-vis journalistic values.…”

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Botlitica: A generative AI-based tool to assist journalists in navigating political propaganda campaigns

Musi,

Garcia Aguilar,

Federico

2024

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The hype on generative AI has raised concerns about the spread of disinformation but also opened up new opportunities for hybrid journalism. The proliferation of political propaganda campaigns spread across digital media during election periods constitutes a challenge for journalists who struggle to exercise information gatekeeping. AI-based tools can in principle help, but journalists are resistant to using them since they are sceptical about their compliance with news values and their scarce user-friendliness. To cope with such issues, we present Botlitica, a GPT3-based chatbot able to answer users’ questions according to the information shared on different social media by a given political party which is, thus, embodied by the AI agent in the conversation. The back-end and front-design of the chatbot are devised to privilege transparency. We report the results of a preliminary evaluation of Botlitica which show that the tool fastens journalists’ capabilities to navigate propaganda campaigns inducing them to exercise critical thinking.

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Botlitica: A generative AI-based tool to assist journalists in navigating political propaganda campaigns

Musi,

Garcia Aguilar,

Federico

2024

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“…Journalists’ responses to newsroom change, and particularly to innovation, have been the subject of considerable research (e.g., Boczkowski, 2004; Cools, 2022; Paulussen et al, 2011; Singer, 2004; Vos & Singer, 2016). The focus is often on how new tools are introduced, rejected, or accepted, with attention on the impact of innovations on reporters’ routines and role conceptions.…”

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We’ve Got a Union, Now What?

Assmann

2024

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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Precarious economic conditions, low pay, layoffs, and dwindling job security motivated journalists to organize in record numbers in the 2010s and 2020s. Cohen and De Peuter’s 2020 research on newsworkers’ motives and organizing strategies in digital newsrooms finds that economic, political, and cultural factors play a role. Pay equity, a more diverse and inclusive newsroom, and a voice in editorial and strategic decision-making are often cited as arguments for union membership. This monograph asks how newsworkers assess the effect of unionization and guild membership on their work, working conditions, and culture. Interviews with 45 journalists in 16 U.S. newsrooms with unions, both established and recently organized, suggest that several goals, such as pay equity, diversity, and inclusion, have not been achieved. Nevertheless, the act of organizing and the managerial work accomplished by union leadership in the newsroom is creating both institutional change and opportunity. A parallel organizational culture is emerging that mitigates poor leadership and human resource management and serves as training ground for a new class of journalists.

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“…Beckett and Yaseen (2023) have found that innovation/digital teams, dedicated cross‐functional teams, tech/IT departments, or data teams oversee the development of AI strategies in their news organizations. These are specialized units (Cools, Van Gorp, and Opgenhaffen 2022; Kosterich and Royal 2024; Sirén‐Heikel, Kjellman, and Lindén 2023), which many local news organizations will not be able to implement. Nevertheless, local news organizations should at least appoint a specialist to monitor AI developments internally and externally and “keep a conversation going within […] [the] organization about AI” (Beckett & Yaseen, 2023, p. 72).…”

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Transforming the value chain of local journalism with artificial intelligence

Wilczek,

Haim,

Thurman

2024

AI Magazine

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With their advertising and audience revenues in decline, local news organizations have been experiencing comparatively high degrees of disruption in recent years. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for local news organizations to better cope with the economic challenges they face. However, local news organizations need to carefully prioritize where AI will create the most value. After all, they serve customers in the audience and advertising markets, with external effects on society. At the same time, they are limited by scarce resources, which constrains the implementation of AI. Therefore, based on Porter's value chain, this article pursues two goals. First, drawing on previous research, we provide a systematic overview of activities for which local news organizations see the biggest potential of AI to create value. Moreover, we highlight promising AI use cases based on benchmarking with national news organizations. Second, we discuss local news organizations’ challenges in implementing AI and how they might overcome such obstacles.

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New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects: How Second-generation Newsroom Innovation Labs are Changing the News Ecosystem

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Botlitica: A generative AI-based tool to assist journalists in navigating political propaganda campaigns

Botlitica: A generative AI-based tool to assist journalists in navigating political propaganda campaigns

We’ve Got a Union, Now What?

Transforming the value chain of local journalism with artificial intelligence

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