Develop ideas or material for columns or commentaries by analyzing and interpreting news, current issues, or personal experiences.

“Develop ideas or material for columns or commentaries by analyzing and interpreting news, current issues, or personal experiences.” is a core task performed by News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#26 most important). About 91% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Monitor external affairs, trends, or events. in Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers. · importance 4.8
• Coordinate and serve as an anchor on news broadcast programs. · importance 4.8
• Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members. · importance 4.7
• Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information. · importance 4.7
• Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas. · importance 4.7
• Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information. · importance 4.6
• Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story. · importance 4.5
• Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience. · importance 4.5
• Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats. · importance 4.5
• Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters. · importance 4.4
• Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information. · importance 4.4
• Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events. · importance 4.3
• Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements. · importance 4.3
• Review and evaluate notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-22648,
  title  = {Develop ideas or material for columns or commentaries by analyzing and interpreting news, current issues, or personal experiences.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-22648}
}