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Francesco Marconi Newsmakers Artificial Intelligence and the Future of journalism

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The final chapters underline the book’s central message: AI empowers journalism. It speeds up information gathering, reveals hidden patterns in data, and helps journalists understand audience behavior more deeply. By taking over repetitive or mechanical tasks, AI frees journalists to focus on investigation, analysis, creativity, and storytelling—the heart of journalism. Yet AI’s insights are not infallible. Algorithms can reflect biases in their training data. They can misclassify, oversimplify, or misunderstand. Therefore, AI should be treated as a valuable assistant, not an unquestionable authority.
Marconi warns against losing the human dimension of journalism. Data can inform a story, but it cannot feel the human experience behind it. Algorithms can detect events, but they cannot understand their moral weight. Journalism’s essence remains human: understanding people and conveying their lived realities through narrative. AI can extend the journalist’s reach, but it cannot replace the journalist’s judgment, empathy, and creativity. The future newsroom will be a hybrid environment in which human insight and machine intelligence work side by side. The Newsmaker, Marconi’s central figure, symbolizes this new form of technologically empowered yet ethically grounded journalist.