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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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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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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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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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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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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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Guiding the way: a comprehensive examination of AI guidelines in global media
AI & Society, volume 40, issue 4 (2025), pp. 2585–2603
"With the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the news industry, media organizations have begun publishing guidelines that aim to promote the responsible, ethical, and unbiased implementation of AI-based technologies. These guidelines are expected to serve journalists
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Artificial Intelligence and Journalism in Four African Countries: Optimists, Pessimists, and Pragmatists
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 10 (2025), pp. 2249–2265
"This study examines how journalists in four African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa) perceive and utilise AI tools in news production. The study draws on “imagined affordance” as a theoretical framework and semi-structured interviews with journalists in the four countries. Th
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ChatGPT and journalistic practices: Unpacking the Nigerian newsroom experiences
International Journal of Advanced Mass Communication and Journalism, volume 6, issue 1 (2025), pp. 93–99
“The research analyzes how ChatGPT transforms traditional news production methods in Nigerian newsrooms by studying its integration into journalistic work. The research analyzes the changes in journalistic routines together with professional consequences through qualitative interviews of thirteen
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Journalists’ Perception of Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Nigerian Newsrooms
Digital Journalism, volume 14, issue 5 (2025), pp. 751–770
"Technological advancements have always influenced how news is sourced, produced, and disseminated. Typically, the Global North leads in adopting such technologies, resulting in unequal technological diffusion and research between the Global North and South. This research takes a less-traveled path
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Generative AI in African News Media: Opportunities and Challenges
Routledge (2025), xix, 190 pp.
"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
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Control Beyond Code: Ownership and Financial Insights of AI Used in Journalism
Santiago de Compostela: Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) (2024), 17 pp.
"The survey report of 70 Zambian media professionals found that 60% of journalists use AI tools, with chatbots, image and video analysis, and automated content generation being the most utilized tools. Although AI tools might have improve efficiency, some respondents found the integration process to
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AI Adoption in South African Newsrooms: Exploring Journalists’ Perceptions
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 50, issue 2 (2024), pp. 22-143
"This article explores South African journalists’ perceptions of the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and algorithms in the newsroom. It specifically investigates (a) journalists’ impressions of AI adoption itself and (b) their current AI usage. It also investigates journalist
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Unravelling Socio-Technological Barriers to AI Integration: A Qualitative Study of Southern African Newsrooms
Emerging Media, volume 2, issue 3 (2024), pp. 474-498
"This study explores the socio-technological barriers to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions in three countries of the global south – South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Through 20 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, it examines the distributio
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Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms: Ethical Challenges Facing Journalists
Studies in Media and Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2024), pp. 401–409
"Artificial intelligence has started to expand in journalism, especially in advanced news organisations. It is evident that journalists are beginning to realise the importance of AI and that it will be a partner to human journalists in their work inside newsrooms. Despite the numerous benefits that
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