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Beyond the Summary: Local Newsroom Epistemic Labor and the Provenance Gap in AI-Mediated News

2026-08-12

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Audiences increasingly encounter the news not through newsrooms but through chatbots, AI-generated summaries, and platform intermediaries that reproduce the form of journalism while omitting the human judgment that produces it. This paper asks what is lost in that substitution. We argue that a central but invisible casualty is epistemic labor: the contextual, accountable human work that converts plausible-sounding...

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10.20944/preprints202608.0831.v1
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