Job Check
News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
Narrate or write news stories, reviews, or commentary for print, broadcast, or other communications media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. May collect and analyze information through interview, investigation, or observation.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Review and evaluate notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss21%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
65%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 99% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 40% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps writers and editors use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.