Funding: Own budget (61), Tech company (OpenAI) (11), Public broadcaster / state media (8), Tech company (Google/GNI) (7)
Partnership with You.com (announced Oct. 17, 2024) putting agentic AI over the dpa wire. Newsrooms taking the wire service get an agentic discovery feature returning AI-generated summaries in answer to an editor's query, with citations to the underlying articles, drawn from dpa's entire database including the latest updates; dpa-Select users can search and summarise across politics, business and general news in…
'Nazi search engine' — Die Zeit built a public, searchable database of NSDAP (Nazi Party) membership records by using AI to OCR millions of scanned membership cards released by the US National Archives. The data science/AI desk processed 5,442 PDFs (~3,000 pages each), combining several OCR systems and leaning heavily on Google's Gemini LLM to read mixed fonts and old German handwriting scripts (Kurrent,…
Editor-in-chief Dirk Kurbjuweit ruled in a published essay that Der Spiegel will not allow AI to write or rewrite its journalism — one of the industry's most restrictive positions. After internal debate over whether machine-generated passages are acceptable in substantially human-made stories, his conclusion was that journalists should not hand the act of writing to a machine. Core argument: responsibility — if a…
AI-powered audience-data dashboard prototype (JournalismAI Skills Lab 2025) — lets CORRECTIV's 16 community-journalism partner newsrooms 'chat with their audience data' chatbot-style to centralise data fragmented across Mailchimp (newsletters), ticket managers (events) and the shared CRM; built by head of digital product Sara Cooper; architecture sends the user's natural-language prompt to Gemini, which returns…
AI-generated promotional interstitials and bumpers using Runway text-to-video (announced October 14, 2024); RTL Deutschland's creative teams write text descriptions that Runway's generative AI converts into visual content for on-screen bumpers separating programmes from advertising; initially live on pay-TV channels RTL Crime, RTL Living and RTL Passion; expanding to free-to-air channels Nitro and RTL Up;…
CUNY AI Journalism Lab Leaders 2026 project — Lena Grotticelli (VP US) produced 'Your Publisher Playbook: How to Power Up Your Commerce Content in the Age of AI,' using generative AI (Microsoft Copilot) to design the presentation. The research-based playbook gives publishers a five-step plan (strengthen product, workflows, discoverability, distribution, relationships) to adapt commerce/affiliate content as AI…