newsroom workflow

Microsoft Copilot’s Week 14 NFL card for USA TODAY landed as another high‑velocity example of what generative AI can do for sports desks: it produced a full set of winner-and-score predictions in minutes, paired with concise rationales, but the experiment once again underscored the single...

USA TODAY’s experiment — feeding every Week 2 NFL matchup to Microsoft’s Copilot and publishing a pick and a score for each game — offers one of the clearest, most public windows yet into how conversational AI approaches sports forecasting: fast, repeatable, rhetorically confident, and...

A single sports image page and a quietly written obituary tell a bigger story about how local journalism actually gets made—and for many newsrooms, the glue holding that story together is a Windows PC on a deadline desk, a sideline laptop on battery power, and a carefully tuned workflow that...

A single frame published on a local page — a wire or staff photograph labeled “Panthers Texans Football” and paired with a terse, weather‑style line — crystallized a familiar but avoidable editorial tension: vivid visual storytelling versus the metadata and verification practices that protect...

A striking staff or wire photograph labeled "Panthers Texans Football" ran on a regional page alongside a short, weather‑style caption — a small editorial choice with outsized implications for verification, metadata stewardship, and audience perception. Background Local and regional newsrooms...