Creative & Media · SOC 27-3023
Researches and reports the news.
Parts of the job are exposed, but judgment and context still matter.
Timeline: Mixed — commodity news automates; original reporting endures.
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Journalist / Reporter is watch on AIFear. Parts of the job are exposed, but judgment and context still matter.
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Our AI Fear Score for Journalist / Reporter is 44/100 (Watch). Parts of the job are exposed, but judgment and context still matter.
44 out of 100. It blends a Frey & Osborne automation probability of 11% with an estimated LLM task-exposure of 85%.
Most exposed: Earnings/sports recaps, Aggregation, Transcription. Harder to automate: Investigative reporting, Source relationships and ethics.
Lean into Investigation, Source building, Multimedia storytelling. Consider roles such as Investigative reporter or Editor.
AI Fear Score blends Frey & Osborne (2013) automation probability with an LLM task-exposure estimate (after Eloundou et al., 2023). Pay/employment are approximate BLS figures. This is an estimate, not a prediction about any individual's job. Compare all occupations.