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AI in Taiwan's news media

26 verified, source-linked AI implementations across 12 news organizations, 2017–2026. Taiwan ranks 18th worldwide by documented cases.
East Asia and the Pacific2017–2026
Cases
26
Organizations
12
Active since
2017
Controversies
0
Compared with the global pattern, Multimedia & Visual Production accounts for 15% of cases here against 4% worldwide; and Subscription & Paywall accounts for 12% of cases here against 1% worldwide.

What AI is used for — and how that differs

Taiwanworldwide sharepp = percentage-point difference
Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance5+3pp
Multimedia & Visual Production4+11pp
Verification & Fact-Checking3+4pp
Audience Experience & Personalisation3+5pp
Subscription & Paywall3+11pp
Workflow & Operations (General)1+1pp
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)1+3pp
Strategy, R&D & Innovation1+4pp
AI Ethics & Editorial Policy1-0pp

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access2
2 – Adoption8
3 – Proficiency12
4 – Ways of Working4
5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Funding: Own budget (17), Public broadcaster / state media (5), Tech company (Google/GNI) (3), Tech company (OpenAI) (1)

Notable cases

2026United Daily News Group

'Publish X' — AI-driven news decision engine for scalable editorial decision-making; productises UDN's data-and-AI editorial stack into a dashboard that aligns story selection and content development with audience-interest signals via vertical topic consensus maps updated daily, while keeping every editorial decision human-reviewed (AI co-pilot model); scales across editorial verticals, business services, digital…

Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance4 – Ways of Working
Publish X (United Daily News Group in-house; AI editorial decision engine; vertical topicSource →

2025The Reporter (報導者)

AI Audience Insight Framework — AI tool linking reader engagement patterns with donor behavior to identify recurring supporters and understand the trust-building pathways that convert readers to financial backers; enables data-driven audience engagement strategy for Taiwan's leading investigative nonprofit journalism outlet; JournalismAI Innovation Challenge 2025 grantee; distinct from The Reporter's existing AI…

Subscription & Paywall1 – Access
AI audience analytics framework (prototype in development; reader engagement + donor behavSource →

2023TVBS

Enterprise-scale AI integration across news production: AI transcription, automated subtitles, voice translation, video editing, news summarisation, scriptwriting and infographics; dedicated AI Future Technology Department established

Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance4 – Ways of Working
OpenAI API (GPT family models); Elastic Stack for data infrastructureSource →

2025PTS / CTS / Hakka Television / RTI / Taiwan Indigenous Television / CNA (consortium)

Joint trustworthy-information AI chatbot drawing on 35+ years of pooled news archives from six public media organisations plus government and NGO data to counter disinformation; Taiwan ranked most severely affected country by cross-border disinformation globally for 10 consecutive years

Verification & Fact-Checking1 – Access
Not yet disclosed;" target completion end of 2026Source →

2025Central News Agency

'Chih Ming' (志明) AI editorial assistant for fact-checking, typo detection, caption recommendation, multi-language information aggregation and 800-word Chinese-language draft generation; 'AskCNA' RAG-based fact-checking chatbot drawing on CNA archive since 2022

Editorial Workflow & Writing Assistance2 – Adoption
Custom AI system developed by CNA Media Lab"; RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architeSource →

2024Public Television Service (PTS / 公共電視台)

AI sign language weather broadcaster for deaf audiences providing weather forecasts and emergency alerts (typhoon, earthquake) in Taiwan sign language; developed in partnership with ITRI

Audience Experience & Personalisation2 – Adoption
ITRI high-precision skeleton estimation technology + deep learning gesture generation modeSource →

Elsewhere in East Asia and the Pacific

Australia 28Cambodia 2China 75Hong Kong 6Indonesia 24Japan 24Malaysia 11Mongolia 2Myanmar 1New Zealand 25Philippines 16Singapore 8
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.