Skip to content
Automation Squad

Role

AI for Journalists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists · O*NET 27-3023.00 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

23 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

33 matched to the tools news analysts, reporters, and journalists use. Showing 24.

  • Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

    Microsoft Outlook

  • WordPress is a website and blog creation and publishing platform with tools for aesthetic designing, visitor tracking, content storage and upload, and more

    Make (make.com)

  • Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Youtube MCP or direct API to upload videos, fetch channel analytics, manage playlists, and moderate comments through natural language.

    Make (make.com)

  • Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Facebook MCP or direct API to post updates, fetch messages, manage comments, and gather page analytics through natural language.

    Make (make.com)

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

    MCP server
  • Powerpoint

    MCP server
  • Wordpress

    MCP server
  • Adobe Photoshop

    MCP server
  • Adobe Premiere Pro is a cloud-based video editing software designed to help businesses create and edit professional videos using various built-in tools. Supervisors can import videos on the platform, add transition effects, and export finished footage to the required destination.

  • Excel

    MCP server
  • Excel

    Skill
  • Make (make.com)

  • Make (make.com)

  • Make (make.com)

  • Pro Tools is an audio editing software that helps musicians, students, teachers, and audio professionals record, edit, mix, and produce unique audio content. The solution enables artists to compile various takes of a recording, fix tracks' timing, and match audio beats in real-ti

  • Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Snapchat MCP or direct API to create ad campaigns, manage ad accounts, analyze performance metrics, and access business data through natural language.

The tools this job actually uses

41 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe After Effectshot
  • Adobe InDesignhot
  • Adobe Photoshophot
  • Facebookhot
  • Hypertext markup language HTMLhot
  • IBM SPSS Statisticshot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft SQL Serverhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • WordPresshot
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Apple Final Cut Pro
  • Audion Laboratories VoxPro
  • Avid Technology Pro Tools
  • Desktop Technologies NewsBoss
  • ESRI ArcView
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Grass Valley EDIUS
  • LexisNexis
  • Mapping software
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro
  • Nielsen Arianna
  • Nielsen Marketbreaks
  • Online databases
  • QuarkXPress
  • RCS NexGen Digital
  • Snapchat
  • Social media sites
  • Social media software
  • Statistical analysis software
  • Statistics databases
  • Twitter
  • Video editing software
  • Web browser software
  • Web content management system CMS software

What this job involves

30 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers.
  2. Coordinate and serve as an anchor on news broadcast programs.
  3. Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
  4. Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information.
  5. Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas.
  6. Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.
  7. Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.
  8. Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience.
  9. Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.
  10. Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters.
  11. Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
  12. Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
  13. Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.
  14. Review and evaluate notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details.
  15. Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.
  16. Review written, audio, or video copy, and correct errors in content, grammar, or punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines.
  17. Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.
  18. Determine a published or broadcasted story's emphasis, length, and format, organizing material accordingly.
  19. Transmit news stories or reporting information from remote locations, using equipment such as satellite phones, telephones, fax machines, or modems.
  20. Check reference materials, such as books, news files, or public records, to obtain relevant facts.
  21. Discuss issues with editors to establish priorities or positions.
  22. Photograph or videotape news events.
  23. Present live or recorded commentary via broadcast media.
  24. Take pictures or video, and process them for inclusion in a story.