Tricky trade-offs on a transparency spectrum: how the Financial Times approaches transparency about AI use in news
As news organisations adopt artificial intelligence (AI), they face growing pressure to be transparent about when and how it is used—yet practical approaches remain uneven. This paper examines AI transparency through an in-depth case study of the Financial Times (FT). Drawing on 13 semi-structured interviews with 12 senior managers across editorial, product, data science, and communications, toget