Preface
Chapter One: How did we get here, and what is at stake?
Chapter Two: AI in Action
Section 1: How AI is being used in journalism
Section 2: Strategy and management
Chapter Three: Ethical and Editorial Risks
Chapter Four: Inequalities and Power
Chapter Five: Future of News Scenarios
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Charlie Beckett is Professor of Practice and Director of Polis and the Polis/LSE JournalismAI project at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, UK.
"What makes this book particularly valuable is its global perspective. Too many guides assume well-resourced Western newsrooms. This book takes seriously the far more constrained reality of publishers in the Global South and argues convincingly that this AI wave can be a leg up even for those newsrooms, not just another force that widens the gap."
- Styli Charalambous, co-founder and CEO of the Daily Maverick, South Africa
"The realm of AI can be bewildering. It’s hard to find reliable, thoughtful, measured voices in a landscape dominated by polarised opinion. This book is an essential tool to help people answer the most critical question in media today: what are the human qualities that must be at the centre of our journalism, and how can we use AI responsibly to amplify them?”
- Chris Moran, Head of Editorial Innovation, The Guardian
“This book arrives at exactly the right moment, when questions around AI and journalism feel urgent but still unsettled. It walks us through how we got here, what is already changing inside newsrooms, what might lie ahead, with a clarity that makes this complex shift graspable."
- Sannuta Raghu, Head of AI, Scroll Media, India
In ‘Reimagining journalism in the AI era’ Beckett traces how newsrooms have explored, feared and too often avoided AI. When most of the conversation about journalism and GenAI is either paranoid or naively utopian, Beckett clearly lays out a handful of visions of what might truly come to pass and how journalists can embrace the best and avoid the worst of what GenAI brings to news."
- Jeremy Gilbert, Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy, Northwestern University
"What makes the book essential is not just its range and breadth but its central provocation: that in an age of AI, the human element becomes more important, not less. The book’s argument — that curiosity, craft, and connection are precisely journalism must reclaim — comes at a time when the field needs guidance from grounded research rather than glittering buzzwords."
- Seth C. Lewis, co-author of Journalism in the Age of AI and the Elcan Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of AI and Media Studies at the University of Virginia
