Stop guessing, start measuring: USA Today on AI in the newsroom

Giselle Ho
3 days ago
1 min read

Nine months of interviews and research into AI evaluations have led USA Today’s Jessica Davis to a blunt conclusion: the human-in-the-loop model isn’t scaling, and intuition isn’t a substitute for data.

https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/stop-guessing-start-measuring-usa-today-on-ai-in-the-newsroom/

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