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What newsroom AI policies actually say in 2026
A pattern review of 27 published guidelines. The headline: transparency over prohibition, humans on every byline, and a surprising consensus on synthetic imagery.
A week with a transcription pipeline that almost worked
Notes from our first real attempt to fold automatic transcription into a regional desk — including the three workflows we had to throw out.
Indonesian publishers and the licensing question, explained
Why the conversation has shifted from "should we block crawlers" to "what does a fair compensation model even look like" in twelve months.
Hallucination is not the only risk worth naming
Survey of recent literature on subtle, harder-to-detect failure modes: source laundering, citation drift, and confident omission.
Cohort 02 opens applications
The second cohort of Good AI for Journalism opens for early-career reporters and editors across Southeast Asia.
Large language models, briefly
What they are, what they are not, and why "it's just autocomplete" is both true and unhelpful.
Retrieval-augmented generation
Why "the model looked it up" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Attribution, consent, and synthetic media
Three questions every newsroom should answer before publishing AI-assisted imagery.
Prompting for journalists
A short guide to writing instructions the model can follow — and a longer warning about over-trusting the result.
When to disclose AI use
A working framework for transparency: what counts as 'material' use.
Training data, in one diagram
Where models learn from, why it matters, and the licensing questions still unresolved.
AI literacy for newsrooms — starter pack
A twelve-lesson primer covering core terms, common failure modes, and a basic verification workflow.
Prompting for journalists
Short, practical guide to writing instructions models can follow — with a longer warning about over-trusting outputs.
Newsroom AI disclosure policy
An editable policy template based on a review of 27 published guidelines.
Verifying an AI-generated quote
A printable, single-session worksheet for fact-checking outputs against primary sources.
Synthetic media in 60 minutes
Editable deck for teaching the basics of AI-generated images, audio, and video to a working newsroom.
Where to start: AI and journalism
A curated, regularly-updated reading list across academic, industry, and practitioner sources.