Journalists
Most tasks score high and the scores agree. Expect the role to be reorganised.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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With an exposure score of 54/100, journalism faces workflow transformation rather than obsolescence. Generative AI accelerates proofreading, copyediting, and routine drafting, while investigative legwork, critical interviews, and nuanced commentary remain anchored in human judgment and accountability.
What changes
- Automating proof copy checks and pre-press copyediting immediately prior to publication.
- Speeding up initial fact-checking, style adjustments, and routine grammar verification across incoming copy.
- Synthesizing background information and assembling initial copy for digital and broadcast current affairs.
What stays human
- Conducting adversarial interviews with politicians and public figures during live conferences.
- On-the-ground investigative reporting, cultivating confidential sources, and observing breaking public events.
- Delivering critical artistic reviews and opinion pieces shaped by personal perspective and discernment.
What to learn
- Mastering AI-assisted data journalism to analyze large public records and document leaks.
- Developing deep domain expertise in complex fields like medicine, law, or technology.
- Refining interpersonal interrogation, live broadcast presence, and ethical source protection practices.
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Liaising with production staff in checking final proof copies immediately prior to printing67
- Receiving, analysing and verifying news and other copy for accuracy64
- Selecting material for publication, checking style, grammar, accuracy and legality of content and arranging for any necessary revisions62
- Collecting, reporting and commenting on news and current affairs for publication in newspapers and periodicals, or for broadcasting by radio, television or webcast media60
- Selecting, assembling and preparing publicity material about business or other organizations for issue through press, radio, television and other media.56
- Researching and reporting on developments in specialized fields such as medicine, science and technology53
- Writing editorials and commentaries on topics of current interest to stimulate public interest and express the views of a publication or broadcasting station51
- Collecting local, national and international news through interviews, investigation and observation, attending public events, seeking out records, reviewing written work, attending film and stage performances46
- Writing critical reviews of literary, musical and other artistic works based on knowledge, judgement and experience for newspapers, television, radio and other media42
- Interviewing politicians and other public figures at press conferences and on other occasions, including individual interviews recorded for radio, television or webcast media37
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Liaising with production staff in checking final proof copies immediately prior to printing(67)
- Receiving, analysing and verifying news and other copy for accuracy(64)
- Selecting material for publication, checking style, grammar, accuracy and legality of content and arranging for any necessary revisions(62)
- Collecting, reporting and commenting on news and current affairs for publication in newspapers and periodicals, or for broadcasting by radio, television or webcast media(60)
- Selecting, assembling and preparing publicity material about business or other organizations for issue through press, radio, television and other media.(56)
- Researching and reporting on developments in specialized fields such as medicine, science and technology(53)
- Writing editorials and commentaries on topics of current interest to stimulate public interest and express the views of a publication or broadcasting station(51)
- Collecting local, national and international news through interviews, investigation and observation, attending public events, seeking out records, reviewing written work, attending film and stage performances(46)
- Writing critical reviews of literary, musical and other artistic works based on knowledge, judgement and experience for newspapers, television, radio and other media(42)
- Interviewing politicians and other public figures at press conferences and on other occasions, including individual interviews recorded for radio, television or webcast media(37)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 54.)
About 70% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Liaising with production staff in checking final proof copies immediately prior to printing
- • Receiving, analysing and verifying news and other copy for accuracy
- • Interviewing politicians and other public figures at press conferences and on other occasions, including individual interviews recorded for radio, television or webcast media
- • Writing critical reviews of literary, musical and other artistic works based on knowledge, judgement and experience for newspapers, television, radio and other media
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Legal, social and cultural professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Legal, social and cultural professionals |
|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 9.6% · 32 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 4.5% · 444 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 4.3% · 227 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 4.1% · 70 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 3.8% · 197 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 3.6% · 109 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 3.5% · 153 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 3.5% · 35 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 3.4% · 99 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 3.4% · 1,162 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 3.3% · 49 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 3.3% · 1,412 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 3.3% · 86 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 3.3% · 154 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.3% · 964 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 3.2% · 146 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 3.2% · 156 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 3.1% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.1% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 3.1% · 695 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 3.1% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 3.1% · 90 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 2.9% · 153 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 2.7% · 72 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.6% · 136 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 2.5% · 601 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.5% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 2.4% · 68 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 2.2% · 386 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 1.9% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 1.9% · 147 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Professionals). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland6,389
- Luxembourg5,274
- Ireland4,873
- Germany4,807
- Belgium4,799
- Denmark4,446
- Norway4,237
- Austria4,099
- Netherlands4,031
- Iceland3,875
- EU273,850
- France3,791
- Finland3,769
- Romania3,559
- Sweden3,416
- Spain3,413
- Slovenia3,326
- Italy3,305
- Cyprus3,271
- Lithuania3,221
- Croatia2,890
- Czechia2,871
- Malta2,825
- Poland2,783
- Hungary2,777
- Portugal2,755
- Latvia2,671
- Estonia2,599
- Bulgaria2,359
- Slovakia2,345
- Greece2,321
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Legal, social and cultural professionals group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?