Al finds a place in newsroom

"The New York Times examined whether Israel had bombed civilians in Gaza. Its team trained an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that could identify the craters left behind by the 2,000-pound bombs. Then, the team used the tool to review satellite imagery and confirm that hundreds of those bombs were dropped particularly in areas that had been marked as safe for civilians.

- VANITA KOHLI-KHANDEKAR

“The Wall Street Journal used AI to map how billionaire Elon Musk’s rhetoric has shifted over time to become increasingly political, particularly after his acquisition of Twitter. The journal used AI to analyse more than 41,000 tweets by Musk, going back as far as 2019. It converted a dataset of his posts into vectors, which helped group tweets with similar keywords in clusters.”

Those are just two examples of AI being used in hard reporting.

Digital news workflows, transcription, customer service, saving reader’s time, building trust (yes!) and reaching new audiences are among the many things that AI is now being used for in newsrooms across the world.