Newsrooms in global test of artificial intelligence
How artificial intelligence can be used in journalism is the subject for a cooperation between London School of Economics and Political Science and Google News Initiative. In a test, newsrooms will cover global news stories using AI-powered storytelling techniques and develop prototypes of new AI-based products and processes.
Google News Initiative and Polis– the journalism think tank at the LSE – are launching the JournalismAI Collab Challenges, an opportunity for three groups of five newsrooms from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific to experiment together.
Each of them – selected by Polis – will have six months to either cover global news stories using AI-powered storytelling techniques or to develop prototypes of new AI-based products and processes.
Participants will receive support from the JournalismAI team and partner institutions in each region: in the Americas, the challenge will be co-hosted with the Knights Lab at Northwestern University; in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the challenge will be co-hosted with BBC News Labs and Clwstwr. JournalismAI’s partner in Asia Pacific will be announced later this year.
The Collab Challenges build on a pilot last year. More than 20 global newsrooms joined forces to solve four common problems using AI, from creating automated news summaries to mitigating newsroom biases and from powering archives to increasing audience loyalty. JournalismAI online trainings are available on the Google News Initiative Training Center.
To learn more about the process, Polis blog
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