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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. The question is not whether the models work; it is what each newsroom does with the time returned, and who decides.