Collect and analyze facts about newsworthy events by interview, investigation, or observation. Report and write stories for newspaper, news magazine, radio, or television.
27 of 27 tasks have some AI capability
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Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can rapidly aggregate, summarize, and cross-check background information from public sources to provide comprehensive context for a story.
Review and evaluate notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can accurately parse notes, extract pertinent facts, and summarize or structure key details from recorded observations.
Review written, audio, or video copy and correct errors in content, grammar, or punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can reliably proofread and correct grammar, punctuation, and formatting across written, audio (via transcription), and video scripts to match style rules.
Edit or assist in editing videos for broadcast.
AI: Fully automatable - AI tools can automate many broadcast video-editing tasks — cutting, pacing, color correction, captions, and graphics — enabling effective end-to-end editing or high-quality assistance.
Check reference materials, such as books, news files, or public records, to obtain relevant facts.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can search and check digital reference materials, public records, and archives and extract relevant facts efficiently when sources are digitized and accessible.
Present live or recorded commentary via broadcast media.
AI: Fully automatable - Text-to-speech, generative scripting, and avatar/video synthesis enable AI to present live or recorded commentary effectively for many broadcast scenarios.
Develop ideas or material for columns or commentaries by analyzing and interpreting news, current issues, or personal experiences.
AI: Fully automatable - Large language models can analyze news and current issues and generate ideas or material for columns and commentaries at scale, matching or augmenting human ideation.
Communicate with readers, viewers, advertisers, or the general public via mail, email, or telephone.
AI: Fully automatable - AI agents can handle mail, email, chat, and automated telephone interactions for readers, viewers, advertisers, and the public, including triage and routine correspondence.
Write online blog entries that address news developments or offer additional information, opinions, or commentary on news events.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can write timely online blog entries that summarize news developments or offer commentary, producing coherent posts quickly.
Write columns, editorials, commentaries, or reviews that interpret events or offer opinions.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate columns, editorials, commentaries, and reviews that interpret events and offer opinions, though human editorial standards and accountability often remain important.
Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas.
AI: Partial - AI can triage assignments and generate story ideas from leads, but assessing lead credibility and newsroom prioritization still needs human input.
Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.
AI: Partial - Scheduling and outreach for interviews can be largely automated, but securing access and negotiating terms with sources commonly requires human intervention.
Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
AI: Partial - AI can assist with contact management and periodic outreach, but building and maintaining trust-based relationships with sources cannot be fully automated.
Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
AI: Partial - AI can draft publishable broadcast and print reports from available material, yet original reporting, verification, and editorial accountability keep humans in the loop.
Gather information about events through research, interviews, experience, or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social, or other functions.
AI: Partial - AI can perform remote research and conduct some interviews, but cannot reliably gain first‑hand experience or physically attend events.
Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.
AI: Partial - AI can edit copy to fit time/space and adhere to style guidelines, but guaranteeing human editorial approval and nuanced newsroom judgment remains limited.
Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.
AI: Partial - AI can rapidly analyze open‑source data and social feeds about breaking events but cannot conduct on‑the‑ground investigation or physically verify sources.
Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.
AI: Partial - AI can generate specialized reporting drafts using domain sources, but may lack the deep, verified subject-matter expertise and accountability required for authoritative reporting.
Determine a published or broadcasted story's emphasis, length, and format and organize material accordingly.
AI: Partial - AI can recommend emphasis, length, and formats and reorganize material, but final editorial judgment about emphasis and audience priorities typically requires human decision‑making.
Transmit news stories or reporting information from remote locations, using equipment such as satellite phones, telephones, fax machines, or modems.
AI: Partial - AI can automate digital transmission workflows where connectivity and interfaces exist, but cannot guarantee operation of physical remote communications equipment in the field without human/hardware support.
Discuss issues with editors to establish priorities or positions.
AI: Partial - AI can prepare recommendations and participate in discussions, but actual negotiation of editorial priorities and newsroom consensus remains a human leadership function.
Photograph or videotape news events.
AI: Partial - AI cannot physically be on scene to capture unpredictable events without integrated robotic hardware and human oversight, though autonomous cameras and drones can sometimes capture footage.
Take pictures or video and process them for inclusion in a story.
AI: Partial - AI can fully process and prepare images/video for stories (editing, color, tagging), but the act of reliably taking pictures or video in all news contexts still often requires human-operated equipment or supervised robotic systems.
Conduct taped or filmed interviews or narratives.
AI: Partial - AI can conduct scripted or simulated taped interviews and generate narrative questions, but often lacks the nuanced rapport, ethical judgment, and real-time adaptability of human interviewers in sensitive or unpredictable situations.
Assign stories to other reporters or duties to production staff.
AI: Partial - Assigning stories and production duties requires managerial judgment, knowledge of staff availability and strengths, and newsroom priorities, so AI can assist but not fully replace human editors.
Write reviews of literary, musical, or other artwork, based on knowledge, judgment, or experience.
AI: Partial - AI can generate high-quality reviews using knowledge and simulated judgment, but lacks genuine lived experience and editorial accountability required for fully autonomous review authorship.
Participate in community events, make public appearances, or conduct community service.
AI: Partial - AI can participate virtually (e.g., virtual appearances or moderation) but cannot physically attend community events or perform in-person community service.