UK journalists' satisfaction with the time they spend working on low-level tasks – by frequency of professional AI use

More frequent AI users are more likely to believe they work on low-level tasks too frequently.

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low_level_tasks. How often do you find yourself working on low-level tasks (such as processing and cleaning data, transcribing) in your journalistic work? gen_per_use. How frequently do you personally work with AI in your journalistic tasks? Base: Never = 293, Less than once a month = 130, 1−3 times a month = 134, 1−4 times a week = 201, Daily = 96.

Source: 'AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: Surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes', published in November 2025.