AI and journalism in southern Africa: editors are using it but balanced with human expertise and editorial judgement - Stuff South Africa

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The article examines how newsrooms in southern Africa are adopting AI for routine journalism tasks such as transcription, headline writing, translation, summarisation, and audience analytics. Editors see clear efficiency gains, but they still rely on human judgment to verify facts, protect credibility, and control editorial decisions. The piece also highlights serious concerns about hallucinations, bias, plagiarism, and weak support for African languages and local context. It notes that some newsrooms are creating internal AI policies, while broader policy and governance frameworks are still catching up with the technology.

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