Review of "Artificial Intelligence in Journalism. Changing the News", by Tony Silvia, Jefferson: McFarland 2025. ISBN: 9781476694085 (pp. 204)
Year: 2026
Type: book-review
Abstract: The use of AI tools in journalism is currently the subject of lively discussion, encompassing the golden opportunities and challenging demands.Tony Silvia's book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of journalism in the face of these challenges, exploring ways to make the most efficient use of the latest technologies.The book consists of nine chapters and four appendices.Starting with: Chapter 1, the author provides a brief history of AI and leads us through the economic, political and ethical issues concerning the application of AI tools in news reporting.The book includes detailed considerations of the relationships between journalism and AI, AI and investigative journalism, the impact of social media on journalism; AI and ethics, and harnessing AI's power.Chapter 3, devoted to visualising the AI newsroom of the future, enables us to envisage the possibilities and consequences of the "AI-zation" of the profession.The book also offers practical assets, including templates for AI policy in newsrooms, examples of AI policies in 52 newsrooms and a 10-step guide to AI adoption in newsrooms.When defining AI, the Author opts for a clear and simple explanation, claiming that "AI refers to the simulation or approximation of human intelligence by software" (p.12).He identifies algorithms as the primary component driving AI: "the computer code that searches for similarities between various concepts and draws comparisons between them in order to create content" (p.12).The most important feature of AIbased tools is their rapid and unprecedented rate of development and application.Even compared to the dynamic expansion of the internet, AI tools, and ChatGPT in particular, significantly surpass these new-old technologies in terms of scope and Pobrane z czasopisma Mediatizations Studies http://mediatization.umcs.pl
Source: Mediatization Studies
Author: Ewa Nowak-Teter
Institution: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Language: English
Topic: Journalism and Media Studies
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7119946676
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