By Rosalynn Mndolwa-Mworia
Managing Director
Mwananchi Communications Limited
A few weeks ago, a young reporter in our newsroom showed me how an AI tool had transcribed a two-hour interview in three minutes. She tapped her laptop and smiled that quiet pride of someone who has just reclaimed an afternoon. I felt two things at once: admiration for what the tool had given her, and a quiet anxiety about what it might one day take.
That anxiety has stayed with me, and I suspect it has stayed with many of my fellow media leaders too. We are not asking whether AI belongs in our work. It is already here in our newsrooms, our content workflows, our audience platforms. The question we have not yet answered is harder: how do we welcome it without surrendering the things that make our work matter?
