Building on recent interpretivist approaches, we conduct a critical narrative review across journalism studies, human-computer interaction, and FAccT scholarship, conceptualizing editorial authority as the conjunction of decision rights, epistemic warrant, and responsibility. We provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for addressing how concerns on fairness, accountability and transparency emerge, interact, and persist within AI mediated journalistic practice. We identify and describe two concurrent authority reconfigurations driven by AI adoption. First, an internal migration of authority, in which editorial judgment is progressively deferred to large language models (LLMs) embedded within newsroom workflows. This migration occurs not through explicit policy decisions, but through interactional, cognitive, and organizational mechanisms that legitimize AI generated outputs while obscuring responsibility and weakening individual and professional agency. Second, we analyze an external migration of authority, whereby decision making power shifts from news organizations toward platforms, vendors, and infrastructural providers that supply AI systems and distribution channels, exacerbating existing power asymmetries within the media ecosystem. Unaddressed, these reconfigurations risk rendering fairness hard to maintain, accountability difficult to assign and transparency performative. We examine participatory approaches to AI design and deployment in journalism as potential mechanisms for retaining or reclaiming editorial authority. We critically assess both their promise and their structural limitations, highlighting how participation can either meaningfully redistribute authority or function as a tokenistic practice that leaves underlying power relations intact.

翻译：基于近期阐释主义方法，我们融合新闻学、人机交互与FAccT学术领域成果开展批判性叙事综述，将编辑权威概念化为决策权、认知担保与责任的三位一体。我们构建了一个综合性理论框架，用以阐释公平性、问责制与透明度关切在AI中介新闻实践中的产生、互动与存续机制。研究识别并描述了由AI应用驱动的两种并行权威重构：其一为权威的内向迁移——编辑判断逐步让位于嵌入新闻编辑室工作流的大语言模型（LLMs）。这种迁移并非通过显性政策决策，而是借助使AI生成内容合法化、同时掩盖责任并削弱个体与职业自主性的互动、认知与组织机制实现。其二为权威的外向迁移——决策权从新闻机构向提供AI系统与分发渠道的平台、供应商及基础设施提供商转移，加剧了媒体生态系统中既有的权力不对称。若不加以干预，这些重构将导致公平性难以维系、问责制难以落实、透明度沦为具文。我们审视了新闻领域AI设计与部署的参与式方法，将其视为保留或重获编辑权威的潜在机制，批判性评估其前景与结构性局限，揭示参与既可能切实重构权力分配，亦可能沦为维持既有权力关系的象征性实践。