I would say that the primary benefit of having journalists is not to produce articles for papers or magazines, but to have people who understand what’s happening and why. Communicating that understanding is also important, but if you don’t have the understanding, you can’t communicate it. I don’t see LLMs as playing any significant role in building understanding. Humans need to process (read and write notes about) information to understand it. Also, the problem of LLM hallucination make them unsuitable for any serious use.