AI in News

AI provides new reporting, investigative and operational tools for journalism. It also exacerbates challenges like disinformation, copyright abuse and job stability. CNTI’s work examines both the opportunities and challenges AI brings to the field in order to shape newsroom leaders and policymakers’ understanding.

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  • Newsgeist 2026: AI, Audiences and Allies in a Changing Information Landscape

    From Oct. 16-18, 2026, 160 journalists, technologists, business leaders and researchers from around the world tackled the most pressing questions facing journalism and the wider information ecosystem.

  • Methods for Evaluating AI Tools in Journalism

    Rather than exploring a particular AI use, our goal is to understand what the current research says — and misses — about how news providers evaluate AI tools across different uses.

  • AI Applications in Investigative Journalism

    The fourth briefing from the AI and Journalism Research Working Group finds that the individual nature of investigations is a challenge for adopting AI tools in investigative journalism.

  • Takeaways from the India AI Impact Summit

    The scale of the India AI Summit has expanded significantly from the early global AI gatherings just a few years ago.

  • Newsroom Policies for AI in Journalism

    The third briefing from the AI and Journalism Research Working Group finds that organizational AI policies tend to prioritize principles and values over practical guidance.

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    Case Studies

    Four interviewees illustrate a broad range of behaviors and attitudes

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    About This Study

    How and why CNTI undertook this project

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    Where Information Comes From

    Few interviewees have deep knowledge about how either journalism or AI chatbots work. At the same time, interviewees expressed generally positive attitudes towards AI chatbots alongside generally negative ones towards news media.

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    Chatbot Experience

    Interviewees see AI chatbots as fast, easy, personalized, customizable and friendly ways of getting information

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    Information needs

    Interviewees use AI chatbots to act on what’s happening and to understand it, more than simply to know about it or to feel something about it

  • Action, Ease & Personalization: AI Chatbot News Experiences

    How habitual AI chatbot users in the US and India stay informed

  • Journalism’s New Frontier: An Analysis of Global AI Policy Proposals and Their Impacts on Journalism

    CNTI analyzed 188 national and regional AI strategies, laws and policies that collectively cover more than 99 countries to determine how AI regulation is impacting journalism around the world.