The whole idea of "a dying media" is pretty scary to me. It indicates that some people place no value in journalism. To be fair, there are a huge number of newspapers who also place little to no value in journalism. I have a number of local papers who will report on celebrity gossip, but it's all auto-translate from somewhere and just posted without questioning, so you end up with random "news" about a person who is completely unknown in the country.
Real, and especially investigative, journalism is extremely expensive and it's not something modern AI is even remotely capable to doing. It might be able to help and make it cheaper, but you can't replace newspapers with ChatGPT and expect to get anything but random gossip and rehashed press releases. I do wonder why the New York Times believe you can.