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An Editor's Quiet Math: AI in Four Southeast Asian Newsrooms

Across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, AI productivity gains and editorial job losses are running on different clocks, narrated by different people. CNA saved 1,200 editor-hours in the same year Indonesian media shed 1,200 roles. Both figures are defensible, which is precisely the problem. What matters is what each newsroom does with the time returned, and who decides.