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Transcription Workflow for Journalists

A practical transcription workflow for journalists, covering authorized capture, source-aligned review, safe AI assistance, export handoff, and human verification.

REVIEWED · 2026-07-19

This page names its evidence and product boundary. It does not use ratings, invented benchmarks, or copied testimonials.

Journalists need more than a block of plausible text. Their accountable starting point is to record interviews with explicit source consent and preserve the unedited source file. The useful destination is searchable interviews, quote logs, source notes, and timecoded review copies, and the review plan must explicitly address attribution, off-the-record boundaries, names, numbers, and quotations that require direct audio verification.

Decision signals

  • Prepare the source: record interviews with explicit source consent and preserve the unedited source file.
  • Deliver useful artifacts: searchable interviews, quote logs, source notes, and timecoded review copies.
  • Set the review rule: replay every published quotation and keep editorial judgment outside automated summaries.

Start with an accountable source

Before processing, record interviews with explicit source consent and preserve the unedited source file. Record who may access the source, how long it should be retained, and which downstream uses were actually authorized.

Review the evidence, not just the prose

Correct the transcript while listening to the recording. Pay special attention to attribution, off-the-record boundaries, names, numbers, and quotations that require direct audio verification. Keep machine suggestions visibly separate until a person accepts them.

Hand off a controlled result

Build searchable interviews, quote logs, source notes, and timecoded review copies. For final quality, replay every published quotation and keep editorial judgment outside automated summaries. Export a stable approved copy so later revisions or product changes do not erase the decision record.

Boundaries to keep visible

  • Automated output is a review draft: attribution, off-the-record boundaries, names, numbers, and quotations that require direct audio verification.
  • Recording rights, notice, consent, confidentiality, retention, and accessibility duties depend on the organization and jurisdiction; the product does not make that decision for the user.

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