Funding: Own budget (12), Tech company (Google/GNI) (3), Media dev org (2), Tech company (OpenAI) (1)
An intern in the wellness section published articles for months generated with AI, inventing sources and quoting experts who did not exist, without disclosure and in breach of the paper's own AI manual. The newsroom caught it itself. Editors noticed the pieces shared the same verbal tics and identical structure; suspicion grew until an editor spotted a citation to a university faculty that does not exist.…
Two AI-powered reader services: (1) Text-to-speech article reader — natural-sounding AI voice reads articles aloud, enabling audio consumption of news and improving accessibility; (2) Intelligent article summaries — AI provides the central ideas of articles before readers engage with full content, saving reading time; both services developed collaboratively by engineering, data science, product and editorial…
Habitantes del Futuro — AI-generated children's content YouTube channel created by LUMO Media Lab (Caracol TV's futures lab); uses generative AI and 3D modelling to revitalise classic Colombian TV characters for modern digital audiences; production costs reduced 90%; winner WAN-IFRA Digital Media Americas 2025 Best Innovative Digital Product
First print newspaper edition in Iberoamerica produced almost entirely by AI: 43 news items, 49 photographs, 15 infographics, headlines, opinion columns, captions and leads all generated or optimized by custom "Escritor de notas" system; human editors reviewed before publication
Staff participation in JournalismAI Academy for Latin America cohort 2025 — programme on building AI-powered editorial strategies and newsroom solutions;" initiative by LSE Polis and Google News Initiative
IPI Global AI Accelerator 2026 — leveraging AI to scale public data investigation work and create audience-centric strategies to reduce donor dependency; one of 15 global newsrooms selected from 205 applications