Agents are coming for the newsroom

Assistants that act can accelerate storytelling, but without good governance, they’ll break trust.

AI assistants are turning into agents that can plan, choose tools, and take action. As that shift hits newsrooms, it’s going to make concerns about hallucinations look woefully simple. The productivity upside is real, but so is the risk of invisible decision-making inside journalistic workflows. In today’s column, I explore those concerns and how media …