Section 03 — Updates

Updates.

News, field notes, and observations on AI in newsrooms and the wider media industry — written for practitioners, not platforms.

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Nov 18, 2026

Policy

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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.

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Nov 04, 2026

Field note

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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.

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Oct 21, 2026

Industry

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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.

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Oct 09, 2026

Research

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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.

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Sep 26, 2026

Programme

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Cohort 02 opens applications

The second cohort of Good AI for Journalism opens for early-career reporters and editors across Southeast Asia.

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