Funding: Own budget (17), Media dev org (2), Tech company (OpenAI) (1), Tech company (Google/GNI) (1)
'Newsroom Agent' — a proprietary in-house AI system that monitors editorially-defined sources (e.g. local-government and public-safety feeds). When relevant information appears on a defined source, the agent pulls it and generates content from it — draft news articles plus accompanying graphics — for the publishing pipeline, with editorial oversight. Presented under the line 'AI won't replace the newsroom, but a…
Solo journalist built "BOTTLENECK" — interactive browser newsgame about the Strait of Hormuz crisis — using AI as a coding tool; AI wrote more than 16,000 lines of production TypeScript/Next.js across 22 sessions in 17 days; all editorial decisions (ship selection, consequence weighting, verified event mapping, 125 article links) remained human-led
AI-assisted fact-checking including AI bots flagging disinformation; EU-funded AI4Trust project tools for automated false-claim detection; Meta and TikTok third-party fact-checking partner
AI-powered homepage editorial curation and content recommendation engine (2023 experiment, 2024 permanent mobile deployment); AI-generated article leads and titles for mobile portal
Three AI virtual hosts deployed to replace human journalists for on-air radio presentation; reversed within one week after public and industry backlash; journalists reinstated
ChatGPT used to write a full news article for Wyborcza.biz (April 2023); published under journalist Boleslaw Breczko's byline with no initial disclosure;" AI origin later revealed in a follow-up piece by the same journalist