Where automation genuinely helps
- Routine coverage with a stable shape. Service journalism, recurring local topics, market and science updates where the structure repeats and the facts change.
- Working from sources instead of from nothing. A draft prepared around collected source information is easier to check than a text a model invented from a one-line prompt.
- Multilingual production. The same brief can run in several languages with separate editorial control for each.
Where it does not help
- Original reporting. Interviews, documents nobody has published, being somewhere. No model does that.
- Sensitive topics. Anything involving accusations, health, minors or legal claims needs a human from the first line, not only at the end.
- Publishing without review. A draft that goes live untouched is a decision the newsroom made, whether it noticed or not.
Four rules that keep responsibility where it belongs
- Every draft has a named reviewing editor before it is published.
- The sources the draft was built from are visible to that editor, not hidden in a supplier's system.
- Images are checked for rights, not only for relevance.
- Corrections are applied the same way for delivered material as for staff-written stories: corrected or withdrawn, never quietly rewritten.
What the law expects in the EU
The EU AI Act sets transparency duties for AI-generated text on matters of public interest. The duty does not apply where the material has gone through human review or editorial control and a person or company holds editorial responsibility. Keeping a record of who reviewed what, and which version was published, is the practical way to meet that standard.
How this works in Doxx
Doxx prepares drafts around a Stream and delivers them with sources & checks and image suggestions. The review workflow lets the newsroom record the reviewing editor and the published version. Automated generation is disclosed in the AI and provenance policy. The newsroom remains the publisher; Doxx does not become the editor.
Set up one Stream and apply the four rules to real drafts.