Author: Ru Xin Teh
The jobs AI is replacing were already killing journalism. The real question is what we choose to build in their place. The Issue Imagine your job, as a journalist in 2026, is to write fifteen SEO articles a day about “best toasters 2026”. You earn £23,000. You have a journalism degree. And this week, an algorithm took your job. Is that a tragedy, or a symptom of a system already broken? Since when did churning out toaster rankings count as journalism at all? AI didn’t create this crisis. It just held up a mirror to the content farm model that…