Interference of AI in Journalistic Practices: Ethic and Profession Standard Challenges

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10.2991/978-94-6239-715-6_19How to use a DOI?

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AI; journalists’ experiences; profession standard; integrity

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key factor which significantly changes production and consumption of media including in the scope of journalistic practices. There are three aspects which determine and affect journalistic practices including aspect of journalist integrity, aspect of the journalist duty and assignment that should be executed and aspect of economy for journalist revenue. The purpose of this study is to explore how journalists understand and accommodate the use of AI when carrying out journalistic practices, and how this interaction affects both the integrity and economic income aspects of journalists. By conducting phenomenological approaches, this research focuses on exploring the experiences and understandings of several journalists from national news media who utilize AI for their assignments as journalists through in-depth interviews and participants’ observations. The results show that there is a shift in the way journalists work in enriching the news context, the speed of writing and mixing field facts and AI work in normal proportions. However, this does not reduce journalistic principles and ethics as the standard of the journalist profession, such as plagiarism, news duplication and fictitious. Journalists do not compromise their ethical standards and integrity. The use of AI in the work of journalists also raises caution that does not solely rely on technology, principles of automation and robotics. Surprisingly, the use of AI in journalistic practice does not imply a decrease in integrity and an increase in the economic income of journalists.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Indah Suryawati
AU  - Basuki Agus Suparno
AU  - Prudensius Maring
AU  - Martini Martini
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/20
TI  - Interference of AI in Journalistic Practices: Ethic and Profession Standard Challenges
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Cross- Disciplinary Academic Research 2025 - Track 2 Advances in Business & Economics, Social Science, Communications & Media (ICAR-T2 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 260
EP  - 267
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-715-6_19
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-715-6_19
ID  - Suryawati2026
ER  -