How do I use AI in journalism without spreading misinformation?

You use the AI tools now, but two worries follow you, that they will spread misinformation through your work, and that they will automate the work itself. Both are real, and the fact that you feel them means you still hold the thing journalism runs on: a duty to the truth. Do not lose that. The tool can help you research, draft, and move faster. It cannot be trusted to be right, and it has no conscience about what it invents. So it can never be your source of truth, only a helper you check. Every fact it hands you is unverified until you have confirmed it the old way. That verification is not the part being automated. It is the part that makes you a journalist. So use the AI for speed, but keep your standards for truth exactly where they were. This week, take one thing a tool gave you and verify it independently before it goes anywhere near print. That discipline is your protection, your value, and the reason the work still needs you.