Can GenAI Move from Individual Use to Collaborative Work? Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities of Coordinating GenAI into Collaborative Newswork — Xiao et al. (2026)
Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping work, but adoption remains largely individual and experimental rather than coordinated into collaborative work. Whether GenAI can move from individual use to collaborative work is a critical question for future organizations. Journalism offers a compelling site to examine this shift: individ- ual journalists have already been disrupted by GenAI tools; yet newswork is inherently collaborative relying on shared norms and coordinated workflows. We conducted 27 interviews with news- room managers, editors and front-line journalists in China. We found that…
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