Media, Publishing & Streaming// topic
Editorial workflow and newsroom AI
In short
The tools the desk actually touches — commissioning, review states, embargoes, corrections — and where AI can sit inside that workflow without anything reaching readers unchecked.
4 pages
definitions
- Embargoes as a field the platform enforces, not a line in an emailAn embargo is a condition set by someone outside the newsroom, and a platform can only enforce it if it is a typed record with a source, a lift instant, a scope and a list of surfaces.definition6 min
- The story budget: turning the morning list into data the platform readsThe budget is the list a newsroom argues over at conference. Held as records rather than a document, it becomes the parent of every story object and finally answers what was planned against what ran.definition6 min
diagnostics
- Machine-drafted copy is reaching the live site unreviewedUnreviewed machine drafts are a missing-field problem in costume. Five paths put generated text on the site with nothing attached, and only two of them are closed by asking people to be careful.diagnostic10 min
- Stories that sit between review states and nobody can say whose they areStalled stories are not a discipline problem. Measure age in each state per transition for two weeks: four distinct distributions appear, and each one points at a different broken step.diagnostic9 min
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