Light in a digital black hole: Exploration of emergent artificial intelligence journalism in Nigeria

Artificial intelligence journalism has been incorporated into the professional routines of the institutional news media formation in the West for more than a decade, but it is only just now being slowly adopted in the rest of the world. This study deploys a combination of case-study research and semi-structured in-depth interviews with senior editors in Nigeria to explore the state of artificial intelligence journalism in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. The study also discusses the implications of leapfrog innovation and the routinization of artificial intelligence reportorial practices in a digitally backward country.