AI drafting in newsrooms: three gates worth installing first
Story selection, verification, and voice are precisely where tooling overreaches fastest—workflow beats model hopping.
Models can scaffold outlines and timelines, yet humans still own fact chains plus explicit citations for anything consequential.
Gate two discloses prose assistance so readers grasp provenance—a trust amortizer. Gate three mandates publish timestamps + iterative edit logs when investigations later ask what changed, when, and why.
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