AI in the newsroom: help, not a replacement

How Sunday Show uses AI to speed up reporting while keeping every published word under human editorial control.

Artificial intelligence has moved from the research lab to the newsroom faster than most media houses expected. At Sunday Show, we made a decision early: AI is a tool for our reporters, not a shortcut around them.

We use AI to translate published stories into Hindi and Marathi within seconds, to generate first-pass summaries, and to draft alt-text for images so our pages are accessible on day one. Every one of those drafts is reviewed by a human editor before it goes live. The byline stays with a person; the accountability stays with our desk.

The risk with generative models is not that they invent facts once — every reporter has done that in a first draft — but that at scale, unreviewed text erodes trust. That is why our workflow inserts a human at the last mile, always. When a translation looks off, we fix it and log it. When a summary skips a nuance, we rewrite it.

Readers should demand this level of transparency from every publisher they read. If a story does not tell you how it was written and reviewed, ask.

Reported by the Sunday Show news desk.