Given how much has shifted to seeing what is trending upon social media, I do wonder if this, whilst may work well to replace that level of `journalists`, but investigatory and other harder `real` journalism, that will take some doing and I don't see that ever happening. Maybe tools to aid journalists, but replacing them outright - nope.
Still in this case it is just the former they are looking to replace, also the term robot, more like program, not robot.