Funding: Own budget (10), Media dev org (1), Tech company (Google/GNI) (1)
AIsu Bilge — an AI news anchor created by Yaşar University's Media Relations Coordination Office to present the institution's 4YU News Bulletin. In June 2025 the anchor was also turned into teaching material: students on the Vocational School's Public Relations and Promotion programme built a digital newspaper as the final project for their Basic Journalism course, and one of them, Eylül Buse Öntürk, interviewed…
Senai Bilir" AI opinion columnist — GPT-4-generated column text produced by editor Ziyahan Albeniz using contextual prompts; DALL-E used to generate columnist's headshot; editor reviews and publishes output; intended to offer perspectives free from self-censorship or political pressure
IPI Global AI Accelerator 2026 — leveraging AI to further drive capacity to verify and communicate fact-checked information; one of 15 global newsrooms selected from 205 applications
Published an AI-written news piece (Articoolo-generated text translated via Google Translate, published without editorial intervention per article note)
Self-described fully AI-based news platform; AI-powered news summaries and production stack with partner tooling
Künye lists "Sanal Haber Editörü: Sofia Vox; numerous site stories are bylined to Sofia Vox as AI journalist persona