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Varia Research

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From Partnership on AI: AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database

Varia Research is a tool designed to help journalists discover emerging stories by providing customizable feeds from news and social media platforms. It organizes research by individual stories and utilizes machine learning to generate summaries and insights, while also suggesting additional relevant articles. This platform streamlines the research process, saving journalists valuable time by offering concise overviews of articles and simplifying the management of sources.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Workflow and Other General Operations

Verification plugin – WeVerify

Media Country or Region Italy Sourced From JournalismAI

The WeVerify Verification Plugin is a browser extension that provides tools for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers to verify the authenticity of online content. It includes features like image context analysis, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and social network analysis, along with tools to search for disinformation. For example, it helps art recovery by cross-checking images and matching them against a database of known fakes.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

VerificAudio

Media Country or Region Spain Sourced From JournalismAI

VerificAudio helps journalists identify audio deepfakes by analyzing audio content for authenticity. It is designed to support fact-checking efforts, especially in the context of significant events like elections, ensuring that journalists can report accurately and responsibly, thus safeguarding the integrity of news coverage and preventing the spread of misinformation.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

Vision AI

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From Partnership on AI: AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database

Vision AI is a tool that enables the creation, deployment, and management of computer vision applications, allowing you to train models for tasks like image classification, object detection, and handwriting recognition. By leveraging pre-trained models and an API, it simplifies the process of building intelligent image metadata systems. Newsrooms rely on Vision AI to organize large image archives and quickly search for specific content, while journalists use it to scan hours of footage, identifying key objects for investigative or nature reporting.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

Weather Bot by Knight Lab/El Vocero de Puerto Rico

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From JournalismAI

Weather Bot is an automation tool designed to gather data from the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, identifying relevant weather alerts and generating reports. This AI-driven application aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of weather reporting, ensuring that critical alerts are delivered promptly to the community. By continuously monitoring data feeds, the bot can detect weather events and produce comprehensive reports that highlight essential details. Additionally, it streamlines the process by translating reports between languages, making information accessible to a wider audience. The generated reports are then published to a content management system and notifications are sent to relevant parties for further dissemination.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Production

WriteHuman

Media Country or Region United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Sourced From Journalists Toolbox

WriteHuman is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance and humanize AI-generated text, making it indistinguishable from human-written content. Its primary features include refining sentence structure, adding idiomatic expressions, and adjusting content to sound more natural and engaging. The tool is particularly useful for bypassing AI detection systems, ensuring that content generated by AI is not flagged as machine-written by platforms like GPTZero, Turnitin, or Crossplag. In addition to creating undetectable AI content, WriteHuman offers privacy features to eliminate AI tracking and preserve the authenticity of your work. It supports diverse use cases, including blogging, SEO-optimized writing, and professional content creation, while allowing users to maintain their unique voice and style.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Production

YouTube DataViewer by Amnesty International

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From JournalismAI

Amnesty International's YouTube DataViewer allows users to extract metadata from any YouTube video. Additionally, it provides the ability to view the video's thumbnail and conduct a reverse image search on it, helping to verify the authenticity and origin of the content. This tool supports digital evidence collection for human rights documentation.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking
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