15- How artificial intelligence is, and isn’t, used in local newsrooms

While media outlets are turning to AI tools, they’re erecting guardrails to control their use

By: Paul Cuno-Booth

Outlets: Granite State News Collaborative

Published: March 20, 2026

Words: 1,663

Last Updated: 18 hours, 21 minutes ago

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When journalists at Chicago Public Media wanted to translate a story into Spanish, it used to be a time-consuming process. Between deciding what to translate, contracting it out to a translator and then getting it online, two days might go by — not ideal for getting timely news out in a city where close to a third of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.

So the media organization, which owns WBEZ Chicago and …

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