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AI in Latvia's news media

7 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 6 news organizations, 2019–2025.
Europe and Central Asia2019–2025
Cases
7
Organizations
6
Active since
2019
Controversies
1
Compared with the global pattern, Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance accounts for 43% of cases here against 17% worldwide.

What AI is used for — and how that differs

Latviaworldwide sharepp = percentage-point difference
Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance3+26pp
AI Ethics & Editorial Policy2+25pp
Content Production & Automation1+0pp
AI Search & Answer Products1+13pp

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access0
2 – Adoption2
3 – Proficiency5
4 – Ways of Working0
5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Funding: Own budget (5), Public broadcaster / state media (2)

Notable cases

2024Latvijas Televīzija (LTV)

Adopted formal internal AI guidelines for use of AI tools in daily editorial work (August 2024) — first Latvian broadcaster to do so; guidelines cited as qualifying professional standard in JTI (Journalism Trust Initiative) certification from Reporters Without Borders (Dec. 2024)

AI Ethics & Editorial Policy3 – Proficiency
Policy frameworkSource →

2025TVNET GRUPA

Published Latvia's first publicly available AI editorial guidelines (November 2025) — "Mākslīgais intelekts (MI) un žurnālistika: TVNET GRUPAS mediju caurspīdīguma principi"; covers transparency principles for all group titles including tvnet.lv

AI Ethics & Editorial Policy2 – Adoption
apollo.lv, rus.tvnet.lv and spoki.lvSource →

2019Delfi Latvia

Laura" AI news anchor — deep neural network text-to-speech system trained on voice recordings of a popular Latvian news anchor; reads Latvian-language news aloud on the Delfi platform; designed for accessibility (visual impairment

Content Production & Automation3 – Proficiency
multitasking) and future personalized content", Tilde deep neural network TTS (text-to-speSource →

2024LSM (Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji)

NEO AI search tool deployed on LSM website, enabling public queries over Latvian public broadcaster news archive via EBU-developed RAG system

AI Search & Answer Products3 – Proficiency
EBU NEO / RAGSource →

2024TVNET Group

AI article summarisation, audio/video production automation, reader behaviour analysis

Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance3 – Proficiency⚑ controversy
CustomSource →

2024Latvijas Mediji

AI transcription and text correction only

Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance2 – Adoption
CustomSource →

Elsewhere in Europe and Central Asia

Albania 4Armenia 7Austria 22Azerbaijan 1Belarus 5Belgium 25Bosnia and Herzegovina 3Bulgaria 6Croatia 5Cyprus 1Czech Republic 24Denmark 27
Data from J·Index, the Journalism AI Index — every case verified against a published source. See the methodological note for how cases are collected and coded. Updated 2026-07-23.