Will AI replace News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
61/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 94% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 13% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 83% of the work
What the job involves
Narrate or write news stories, reviews, or commentary for print, broadcast, or other communications media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. May collect and analyze information through interview, investigation, or observation.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(4)
- Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.
- Check reference materials, such as books, news files, or public records, to obtain relevant facts.
- Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.
- Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information.
Within reach(21)
- Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience.
- Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.
- Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.
- Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
- Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.
and 16 more
Out of reach(5)
- Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
- Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
- Transmit news stories or reporting information from remote locations, using equipment such as satellite phones, telephones, fax machines, or modems.
- Photograph or videotape news events.
- Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters.
Also called
Journalist · Columnist · Film Critic · Multimedia Journalist · News Anchor · News Reporter · Book Critic · Book Reviewer
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics