Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, "Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination" (Polity, 2027)

What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for?

In this episode, Joanne Kuai speaks with Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, authors of Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity, 2027).

For decades, journalism has been caught on a “hamster wheel” of

acceleration: producing more stories, for more platforms, with fewer

resources. AI promises even greater efficiency, but is doing more with

less really what journalism needs?

Lewis, Zamith, and Dodds argue

that the current AI moment offers something more consequential: an

opportunity to reimagine journalism itself. The conversation explores

what remains distinctly human about journalism when machines can

increasingly perform creative and cognitive tasks; how dependence on AI

companies and digital infrastructure is reshaping media power; what AI