Artificial intelligence will step in for a swathe of editorial roles as part of an overhaul of Germany’s largest newspaper title, Bild.
The tabloid publication is undergoing a significant shakeup of its operations following a pledge from the publisher, Mathias Döpfner, to make the brand “digital only.”
On June 19, the German publishing company that owns Bild, Axel Springer, told staff that redundancies—estimated to be in the hundreds—would be underway.
The company said it would “part ways with colleagues whose jobs will be replaced by AI and/or automated processes in the digital world, or who do not find themselves in this new line-up with their current skills,” according to an email obtained by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine….