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Creative & Media · Updated Aug 2026

Editors

Plan, coordinate, revise, or edit written material. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
69/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
57/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage86%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.High
74
Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.High
73
Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.High
74
Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.High
74
Supervise and coordinate work of reporters and other editors.High
73
Oversee publication production, including artwork, layout, computer typesetting, and printing, ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget requirements.High
74
Select local, state, national, and international news items received from wire services, based on assessment of items' significance and interest value.Medium
73
Write text, such as stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.High
75
Plan the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.High
73
Monitor news-gathering operations to ensure utilization of all news sources, such as press releases, telephone contacts, radio, television, wire services, and other reporters.High
57
Confer with management and editorial staff members regarding placement and emphasis of developing news stories.High
68
Allocate print space for story text, photos, and illustrations according to space parameters and copy significance, using knowledge of layout principles.Medium
74
Review and approve proofs submitted by composing room prior to publication production.Medium
75
Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.High
39
Direct the policies and departments of newspapers, magazines and other publishing establishments.Medium
75
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Write text, such as stories, articles, editorials, or newsletters.75
  2. Review and approve proofs submitted by composing room prior to publication production.75
  3. Direct the policies and departments of newspapers, magazines and other publishing establishments.75
  4. Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.74
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.01
  2. Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.02
  3. Read, evaluate and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication, and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.03
  4. Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability, or supervise others who do this work.04
  5. Develop story or content ideas, considering reader or audience appeal.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency79
Physical dependency28
Adoption pressure54
Labour-market resilience56
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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