openalexJournalism and Media2026-07-24
News Sufficiency: How Generative AI Summaries Reduce News Consumption in Zero-Click Searches
Paulo Couraceiro, Pedro Caldeira Pais
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping the audience’s relationship with journalism, particularly through AI-generated summaries. Building on the observed patterns of limited visibility of sources, condensed summary presentation, and reduced contextual dep…