Beyond the Hype: A Blueprint for Operationalizing AI Governance in Your Newsroom

AI tools are showing up in newsrooms faster than the rules for using them. Whether your organization has a formal policy or is still figuring out where to start, this session tackles the practical side of governance. That means answering questions about who makes decisions about AI tools, how risk is evaluated and how teams keep experimenting without impacting trust. Using Poynter's AI ethics guidelines as a starting point, we'll walk through a framework for building a cross-functional AI committee, defining use cases, setting review and disclosure standards and creating a repeatable process for evaluating new tools and workflows.