Are AI-driven journalists trying to reduce stories to data streams? Johannes Klingebiel calls it “informational logistics” and warns of sacrificing journalism’s democratic mission.
Summary
- Informational logistics: journalism's shift from meaning-making to supply chain management.
- Fragmentation, repackaging, pipelining: content as raw material for AI, not democratic discourse.
- Algorithmic capture: journalism's democratic mission under threat by tech platforms' commercial interests.
