Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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1. Oct 15
   When AI becomes the information hub, what value do media still hold?

   Writing for 36Kr, Tencent Research Institute senior expert Liu Jinsong lays out seven issues through which generative AI is reshaping media across production, distribution and value capture. He cites Pew Research Center data showing that when an AI summary appears in search results, the share of users clicking external links falls from 15% to 8%, only 1% click cited links inside the summary, and the share ending the session right after seeing a summary rises from 16% to 26%. The piece also references an October 2026 wave of US local publishers, including Emmerich Newspapers and USA Today, suing OpenAI over unauthorized use of their reporting for model training, and Microsoft's February 2026 publisher content marketplace, which aims to pay publishers based on how much of their content is consumed. The author argues that in the AI era the scarce goods are trustworthy facts, original findings and valuable judgment, with media's core role split into recording the real world, forming professional judgment and sustaining a shared public space.

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