{"id":221419,"date":"2026-05-27T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work-north-coast-current\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:25:17","slug":"citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work-north-coast-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work-north-coast-current\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Koenig: Hesitancy, hope using artificial intelligence for news work \u2013 North Coast Current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcoastcurrent.com\/columnists\/2026\/05\/citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work\/\">Citizen Koenig: Hesitancy, hope using artificial intelligence for news work \u2013 North Coast Current<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcoastcurrent.com\/columnists\/2026\/05\/citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work\/\">https:\/\/www.northcoastcurrent.com\/columnists\/2026\/05\/citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 21:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.northcoastcurrent.com\">www.northcoastcurrent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The author, Roman S. Koenig, expresses conflict over using AI in journalism due to both opportunity and necessity despite his issues with early AI adoption.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns about AI in journalism include skeptical audiences questioning the legitimacy of content and concerns about job displacement for journalists as news outlets adopt AI.<\/li>\n<li>Recent examples of AI issues include retracted articles by non-existent authors and plagiarism by AI companies.<\/li>\n<li>Koenig uses AI for non-critical aspects of his publishing work at North Coast Current, mainly for efficiency and capacity to cover more information.<\/li>\n<li>He employs a rigorous four-step process for using AI, ensuring that AI-assisted content is fact-checked thoroughly before publication.<\/li>\n<li>Koenig stresses the importance of transparency when using AI and hopes for responsible use as a supportive tool rather than a replacement for human journalists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Koenig: Hesitancy, hope using artificial intelligence for news work \u2013 North Coast Current https:\/\/www.northcoastcurrent.com\/columnists\/2026\/05\/citizen-koenig-hesitancy-hope-using-artificial-intelligence-for-news-work\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.northcoastcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026_05_NCC_column_koenig_r_citizenkoenig.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-221419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221421,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221419\/revisions\/221421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}