Focusing on three areas of generative AI use-content, production, and reception-this book offers a timely perspective on the impact of generative AI on journalism.
This book brings together multiple research projects and engagement activities, including fieldwork in nine countries from across Europe, Australia, and the USA, to offer an expansive overview of the affordances and limitations of generative AI for journalism, how generative AI is (or is intentionally not) being used in journalism, and how audiences are encountering and reacting to generative AI-powered journalism in their daily lives. The authors trace the history of AI in journalism and contextualise generative AI as the latest iteration in a long trend of automating news and journalism production, editing, and presentation dating back to the 1830s. Issues discussed include labour displacement; algorithmic bias and algorithmic explainability; ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges; and audience perceptions of authenticity, accuracy, and transparency as they relate to journalism produced by or with the involvement of generative AI.
Generative AI and Journalism is written for researchers and students of journalism and audience Studies.
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T. J. Thomson is an Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia where he co-leads the News, Technology, and Society Network. He is an expert in visual communication and is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism (2025) and is the co-author of Living with Misinformation A Media Literacy Approach (Routledge, 2026) and Everyday Visual News: Audience Expectations, Engagements, and Meanings (Routledge, 2026).
Ryan J. Thomas is a Professor of Journalism and Media Production and Director of Graduate Studies in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, USA. His teaching and research centre on issues pertaining to the intersections of journalism and democracy, journalism ethics, and the sociology of news production. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Media Ethics and co-editor (with Edson C. Tandoc, Joy Jenkins, and Oscar Westlund) of Critical Incidents in Journalism: Pivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism Around the World (Routledge, 2020).
Hannes Cools is Assistant Professor 'Human Factor in New Technologies' at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also a Fellow at the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC), at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). His research interests include responsible AI, computational journalism, newsroom innovation and news automation. He is also a research affiliate at the Culture, Communication and Technology (CCT) Program of Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA.