April 27, 2026 KUALA LUMPUR – THE conversation in newsrooms has matured. The most pressing concern is no longer whether artificial intelligence (AI) belongs in journalism, but how to ensure the limitless bytes of AI output do not drown out the human pulse of the press. At the recently concluded World Journalists Conference (WJC) 2026 in Seoul, South Korea, news practitioners grappled with this very question during the ‘AI in the Newsroom: From Practice to the Next Phase’ segment.