“Journalists' vision of practicing artificial intelligence journalism as a new model and its impact on journalistic performance within smart newsrooms of Arab newspapers and websites - a study of work mechanisms, practice problems, and future challenges”

This study sought to identify the vision of journalists in the impact of practicing artificial intelligence journalism on the performance of journalistic work within the smart newsrooms of Arab newspapers and websites by revealing the various factors and variables that govern and determine the mechanisms of journalists' practice of this new type of journalism as well as the issues of practice and ways to solve them in addition to their future perceptions of the nature of the relationship between the human and robot journalist within the smart newsrooms of Arab newspapers and websites.  Using each of the following theoretical models. Vigo Chaicken2022, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical framework for the study. This study is considered one of the Exploratory Discovery, Descriptive Studies. The study relied mainly on the media survey method with its descriptive and analytical aspects. Within the framework of this method, the researcher used the media practice survey method to identify the reality of journalists' practice of artificial intelligence journalism within the smart newsrooms of Arab newspapers and websites. The researcher relied on the comprehensive inventory method in his selection of the field study sample, which is represented by a group of journalists and journalists from Egypt and some other Arab countries, 28 male and female journalists who published topics related to journalism and artificial intelligence on the IJNet website, which reflected their professional experiences in practicing artificial intelligence journalism and their vision of the reality of using artificial intelligence tools in performing journalistic work in newsrooms of Arab newspapers and websites, The researcher contacted them through their personal accounts on the “X and Facebook” platforms. And invited them to conduct in-depth electronic interviews with them about “their vision in practicing artificial intelligence journalism as a new pattern in the Arab press environment and its impact on the performance of journalistic work in newsrooms” through the ‘Zoom’ application. The researcher used the “Sonix.ai” tool, which is one of the artificial intelligence tools for automatic transcription and conversion of audio, whether recorded or live in Zoom meetings, into text, during his in-depth electronic interviews with journalists “the study sample”. In light of the objectives and questions of the study, a set of general findings can be summarized as follows.- The interviews revealed a degree of disparity between the respondents regarding the issue of journalistic training and obtaining specialized training courses in the practice of AI journalism, which in turn reflects on the level of proficiency of these journalists in the skills of practicing this new style of journalism.- The majority of journalists “the study sample” confirmed to the researcher that they obtained their training courses in the techniques of practicing AI journalism through the organization of the press administration for these courses.
- The AI tools mentioned by the journalists “the study sample” to the researcher varied and varied in the number and variety of tasks performed by these tools in newsrooms, some of which had free and paid plans.
-  The skills of “using Google Maps” and “employing machine translation applications” came at the forefront of the technical skills needed to practice AI journalism from the perspective of journalists “the study sample”.
-  All journalists in the study sample believe that the positive effects of practicing AI journalism in rooms not only benefit journalists, but also their journalistic organization and their audience.
- The interviews revealed a difference between the journalists "the study sample" in their perception of the problems of practicing AI journalism, their causes and ways to remedy them.
 -  The interviews witnessed agreement among all respondents about their vision of the necessity of using AI tools to perform some journalistic work within newsrooms , provided that the use is rational.