If the agent is the gatekeeper, what should we measure?

One recent preprint makes a useful distinction: the model is only part of a newsroom agent. The surrounding architecture changes what it searches, rejects, records, and how long it takes.

Cards 2-4 draw on Robo-Reporters: Evaluating Autonomous AI Agents as Algorithmic Gatekeepers in Computational Journalism, submitted July 12, 2026. The study compares four architectures across 200 controlled experiments on 50 journalism tasks, using the same underlying model and identical tools.

Card 5 draws on Consumer Reports' AI x Journalism Summit takeaways: put probabilistic AI inside guardrails, human review, and explicit provenance.

If you were commissioning a newsroom agent, would you optimize for accuracy, speed, or auditability?