AI in Malta's news media
3 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 2 news organizations, 2025–2026.
Middle East and North Africa2025–2026
What AI is used for
Content Production & Automation1
AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters1
Transcription & Translation1
How far adoption has gone
1 – Access0
2 – Adoption2
3 – Proficiency1
4 – Ways of Working0
5 – Reorganizing0
Who is adopting
Funding: Own budget (1), Public broadcaster / state media (1), Tech company (Google/GNI) (1)
Notable cases
Malta's first AI news presenter — hyper-realistic avatar news presenter deployed on TVM news broadcasts; launched October 2025; sparked protests from Malta Entertainment Industry Association (MEIA) and Solidarjetà over artists' rights and precarity of media workers
AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters3 – Proficiency⚑ controversy
AI-generated opening sequence for 'Indigo' daytime magazine show on ONE — Malta's first AI-generated TV broadcast intro; NeuralAI used text-to-video models
Content Production & Automation2 – Adoption⚑ controversy
Elsewhere in Middle East and North Africa
Data from
J·Index, the Journalism AI Index —
every case verified against a published source. See the
methodological note for how cases are collected and coded.
Updated 2026-07-23.