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Navigating risks and rewards: How South African journalists use AI in the newsroom
Johannesburg; Stellenbosch: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 33 pp.
"This study demonstrates impressively how widely AI is already used in South African newsrooms – often, however, without systematic training, without editorial guidelines, and without tools adapted to African languages and contexts. The interviews make it clear that journalists stand between curio
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Automated Disinformation and Malicious AI Swarms: Risks for Democracy and Development in Africa
Online: arXiv, First (2026), 26 pp.
"Generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how information is produced, accessed, and circulated, while enabling disinformation campaigns of increasing scale and sophistication. There is currently no clear evidence that fully autonomous AI swarms conduct influence operations at scale, but thei
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New AI Literacy Framework helps schools prepare learners for the age of artificial intelligence
Brussels, Belgium: European Commission (2026)
"This resource introduces the EU-OECD AI Literacy Framework for primary and secondary education, designed to help schools integrate AI literacy systematically into teaching and learning. It goes beyond learning how to operate AI tools by emphasizing critical understanding, responsible use, ethical i
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AI in the Newsroom: Practices and Case Studies
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 16 pp.
"This paper examines how AI is being used across newsroom work rather than treating adoption as a single decision. It maps applications along the news value chain, compares institutional approaches and draws lessons from international and African examples. Readers can use the cases to assess the gap
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A Taxonomy of LLM-Supported Tasks for Critical AI Literacy in Journalism
Postdigital Science and Education (2026), 23 pp.
"This paper develops a task-based taxonomy for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into journalism education, drawing on task definitions from machine learning and natural language processing alongside journalism studies. Organised around four stages of the news workflow, newsgathering, sensema
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Whose responsibility? Deconstructing global responsible AI from the African lens: a review
AI and Ethics, volume 6 (2026), 19 pp.
"This paper uses the theory of decoloniality to critically examine how African scholars have interrogated the dominant, global narratives surrounding responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). Through a multivocal literature review, the paper reveals a range of critical perspectives that expose syste
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AI-Assisted Journalism and Media: Opportunities and Challenges
Deep Insights
Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 1st (2026), 172 pp.
"This edited volume examines how artificial intelligence is transforming journalism and newsroom practices, balancing practical opportunities with professional and ethical challenges. Its chapters cover AI-supported news gathering, verification, automated content production, audience engagement, new
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Curricula and Curriculum Development for AI Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper focuses on how journalism programmes can translate AI-related needs into a coherent curriculum. It considers competency development, course structure and the conditions educators need to teach responsibly in changing media environments. Its African focus supports adaptation to local news
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Sustaining hyperlocal journalism with generative AI: Business model innovation and ethical tensions in Indonesian digital newsrooms
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (2026), pp. 1–28
"This article connects GenAI adoption to the financial and editorial pressures facing small Indonesian newsrooms. Its key contribution is showing that productivity and revenue gains can be real but modest, and do not resolve deeper structural precarity. It also gives practical options for responsibl
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Generative AI in Journalism
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 31 pp.
"This paper examines how journalists can create with generative AI across text, image, audio and video. It explains practical capabilities alongside limits and considers disclosure, verification and editorial responsibility. The report gives newsrooms a basis for deciding when synthetic content is a
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Principled caution: How AI is used in public-interest media in Asia
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 52 pp.
"In conclusion, this research has provided a systematic understanding of AI adoption within public-interest media across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. By identifying concrete areas for strategic intervention, this research seeks to strengthen
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Platformisation, Power, and AI Governance in the Newsroom: Insights From the Global South
Media and Communication, volume 14 (2026), 19 pp.
"Scholarship on AI and journalism in the Global South has highlighted how digital and data colonialism reproduce global hierarchies of power, labour, and knowledge, often through platform capitalism and externally controlled technological infrastructures. Yet limited empirical research examines how
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Conversational AI agent for teacher education in Ghana
Discover Education, volume 5 (2026), 33 pp.
"While generic and frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are expanding rapidly in global education, their lack of contextual sensitive and cultural awarenenss limits their efficacy in localized settings. Consequently, limited attention has been given to developing context-aware, culturally gro
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Fact-checking and Investigative Journalism’s Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Journalism Practice (2026), pp. 1-21
"The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has created new opportunities and challenges for journalism. A significant opportunity lies in the use of AI technologies for investigative journalism and fact-checking, core functions of the field. Grounded in technological appropri
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Critiquing Generative AI in Africa's Media Ecosystems
London; New York: Routledge (2026), 215 pp.
"The book argues that as technology is a social construct reflecting existing power dynamics, those in the Global South, and in Africa in particular, are bound to be marginalised and have their knowledge, systems overlooked as the Global North dominates technological developments. The birth of AI ha
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Multi‐Method Analysis of Locally Built Artificial Intelligence Models Designed for Journalists in an African Country
Media and Communication, volume 14 (2026), 19 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) models for journalism have been built within the Global North context, hence deepening the concerns of the “AI divide” between the North and South. This has compelled organizations in various areas of the Global South to develop journalism‐focused AI models to add
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AI-Powered Fact-Checking and Verification Tools
Kampala: AI Media Lab, Media Challenge Initiative (2026), 23 pp.
"This report focuses on the tools journalists can use to check claims and assess digital material. It treats tool outputs as evidence to be evaluated rather than final answers, and places verification within a human editorial process. Readers gain a practical frame for selecting and using AI-support
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Deciphering authenticity in the age of AI: how AI-generated disinformation images and AI detection tools influence judgements of authenticity
Deep Insights
Key Guides
AI & SOCIETY, volume 41 (2025), pp. 493–504
"An ongoing surge of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled false content has been spreading its way through the information ecosystem, including AI-generated images, which have been used as part of political disinformation campaigns. Thus, there remains a pressing need to understand which factors ind
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SpinozAI: Augmenting Journalism with Innovation and Ethics
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2025), 15 pp.
"The Spinoza project aims to develop an open-source AI tool that ensures the integrity, traceability, and ownership of its data. It is co-designed with journalists and publishers and its first prototype focuses on climate change issues. The initial concept was launched by Reporters Without Borders (
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AI, journalism, and critical AI literacy: exploring journalists’ perspectives on AI and responsible reporting
AI & SOCIETY, volume 40 (2025), pp. 6393–6405
"This study explores the perspectives of media professionals on the concerns, needs, and responsibilities related to fostering AI literacy among journalists. We report on findings from two workshops with journalists (based in the USA, the UK, China, and India), as well as representatives of civil so
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