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Sean
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What is the future hold for future journalism majors?
With the state of ai and people losing their positions around the world, what does it entail for journalism majors?
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Gustavo Medina Pérez
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AI is continuously advancing and changing, affecting numerous industries and leading to job losses for many individuals. Nevertheless, the issue lies not with AI itself, but with those who have failed to adjust to technological progress.
In journalism, I think it is a field where people can empower themselves through AI, provided they use it as a tool rather than a lifestyle. If that balance is maintained, significant problems are unlikely to arise.
In journalism, I think it is a field where people can empower themselves through AI, provided they use it as a tool rather than a lifestyle. If that balance is maintained, significant problems are unlikely to arise.
Liam Rielly
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We need journalists. AI cannot be a first person point of view. We need people who are willing to go to dangerous places and push information to the rest of the world. We need people that give information without bias. We need people to look someone with power in the eye and ask them a question they are not prepared to answer. This is what journalists do.
AI can write a book's worth of content that is mostly correct in an hour but it cannot ride into a conflict zone and describe what it saw and the feeling in the air. AI can extract likes, subscribes, reposts, and blocks writing the perfect article based on "user experience" and SEO, but it won't deliver the news we don't want to hear.
This will be your job. This is what is important in journalism.
AI can write a book's worth of content that is mostly correct in an hour but it cannot ride into a conflict zone and describe what it saw and the feeling in the air. AI can extract likes, subscribes, reposts, and blocks writing the perfect article based on "user experience" and SEO, but it won't deliver the news we don't want to hear.
This will be your job. This is what is important in journalism.
Jim Loiacono
Global Technical Sales
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Liam,
While AI will replace some journalists, try writing an article with AI and you will realize that it does not do a very good job of deciding ultimately what is the best way to publish an article. While it gives lots of ideas, I believe the job of a good (human) journalist will be to ultimately decide the best words, phrases, order of sentences, punctuation, etc. to deliver the message. Whether that message is for shock value/impact, empathy (without sounding weird), etc., I get lots of ideas from AI, but it is up to my best human judgement as to what I ultimately publish. Good journalists have solicited ideas from human inputs over the years (i.e. editors, etc.) but now AI is providing much of the inputs, but I believe good human judgement will decide who the world believes is the better journalist--AI or human.
While AI will replace some journalists, try writing an article with AI and you will realize that it does not do a very good job of deciding ultimately what is the best way to publish an article. While it gives lots of ideas, I believe the job of a good (human) journalist will be to ultimately decide the best words, phrases, order of sentences, punctuation, etc. to deliver the message. Whether that message is for shock value/impact, empathy (without sounding weird), etc., I get lots of ideas from AI, but it is up to my best human judgement as to what I ultimately publish. Good journalists have solicited ideas from human inputs over the years (i.e. editors, etc.) but now AI is providing much of the inputs, but I believe good human judgement will decide who the world believes is the better journalist--AI or human.
Joseph Aseo
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I graduated with a Journalism degree from San Jose State in 1981, and I have spent 45 years writing in Silicon Valley. My career isn't just about collecting facts (something Generative AI can easily do). My real job is asking the right questions, (which Generative AI struggles with).
Here are the key questions I ask:
Who: Who is my audience? What are their goals, needs, and interests?
What: What information do they need to make decisions or take action?
Where: Where should they apply this information to meet their goals or needs?
When: When should they use this information to meet their goals or needs?
How: How can they use this information to meet their goals or needs?
Why: Why is this information important for them to meet their goals or needs?
Here are the key questions I ask:
Who: Who is my audience? What are their goals, needs, and interests?
What: What information do they need to make decisions or take action?
Where: Where should they apply this information to meet their goals or needs?
When: When should they use this information to meet their goals or needs?
How: How can they use this information to meet their goals or needs?
Why: Why is this information important for them to meet their goals or needs?
Supreeti Sehra
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Supreeti’s Answer
Technology is ever evolving and AI is another piece. Think of it more like how can I increase productivity using AI tools to solve problems. In today's day and age where efficiency is the key you need to be able to generate results quickly. AI literacy and journalism will make you valuable and irreplaceable. It will help you with faster research, fact finding, analysis, quicker first draft and recommendations. It can help refine first draft into a polished article with speed , giving you more time to work on insights, creativity and truth to tell powerful stories. AI can help in many ways in different areas of journalism but what it cannot help with is building trust with sources, ethical decisions, judgement, emotion and human centric skills that are most important in real journalism to reflect real stories. My recommendation to you would be if journalism is what excites you then pair it up with AI tools (Claude, Perplexity, Gemini etc) out there to be the best. Good luck!
Jesse Sanchez
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Jesse’s Answer
Sean, technology is always evolving! The craft of Journalism only gets challenging. No technology can replace creativity in Journalism and that is simply because Journalists apply human emotions! Therefore, as long as you are true to your Journalistic Beliefs, your future is always bright!
Sandeep Khandelwal
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Sandeep’s Answer
Hello Sean,
AI will reduce routine journalism like basic news rewrites but it won’t replace real reporting. Investigative work, storytelling, and credible analysis will still need human judgment.
For journalism majors, the key is to build strong research, interviewing, and critical thinking skills, and learn to use AI as a tool but not compete with it.
AI will reduce routine journalism like basic news rewrites but it won’t replace real reporting. Investigative work, storytelling, and credible analysis will still need human judgment.
For journalism majors, the key is to build strong research, interviewing, and critical thinking skills, and learn to use AI as a tool but not compete with it.