Best-selling newspaper in Germany to replace editors with AI

Bild, Germany’s best-selling newspaper, is cutting hundreds of jobs and replacing its editors with artificial intelligence (AI) as it attempts to turn a corner following a string of sex scandals. The tabloid newspaper has embarked on a radical overhaul of its business model as it looks to stem a decline in readership and rehabilitate its reputation. Bild, which is owned by publishing giant Axel Springer, told staff on Monday it was making sweeping redundancies as part of a move away from print towards digital journalism.

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scandal：丑行；丑闻（来自古希腊语的陷阱，绊脚石，scan-，scand- = to leap，to climb，掉到陷阱中想爬出来）

tabloid：小报（tabl- = plank，平板）

embark：乘船，上飞机（em- 进入，bark 船）；引申为开始做某事

radical：激进分子，根式（rad- = root，根）

overhaul：分解检查，翻修；精细检查（over- 超过，haul- 拉）

stem：茎，干；vt. 阻塞；逆行

decline：衰退；下降

rehabilitate：恢复原状（habilitate 提供周转资金，使...具有能力）

reputation：名誉（repute 名誉；名声）

redundant：冗长；多余

redundancy：多余的；过多的；冗余的（来自拉丁语 redundare，流出）

journal：杂志；日报

journalism：新闻业，保障杂志