Carolina Science Cafe: Who’s a Journalist in the Age of AI?

Who’s a Journalist in the Age of AI? Theorizing Distributed Journalistic Authority Amid Newsfluencers, Algorithms, and Generative Systems Who’s a Journalist in the Age of AI? addresses a critical development in the news media. In this talk, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty member, Deb Aikat, PhD, will discuss how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reconfigures the epistemic boundaries of journalistic authority, credibility, and public verification in democratic discourse. Dr. Aikat will discuss how AI is reshaping press freedom at a time when public trus