Google Lighthouse

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Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that can help your newsroom optimize website performance by identifying areas for faster load times and better user experience. It ensures accessibility by highlighting issues such as poor color contrast and screen reader compatibility, making your content more inclusive. Lighthouse also improves SEO by offering recommendations to enhance content discoverability and search rankings. Additionally, it ensures that your site follows best practices for security, mobile-friendliness, and overall usability, helping to retain readers and increase engagement.

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Hugging Face AI Creator Assistant

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The AI Creator Assistant allows journalists to create and share their own custom AI assistants using models of their choice. Journalists can personalize their assistant with a unique name, avatar, and description, and configure it to search the web or specific domains for relevant information. The assistant can be tailored for specific tasks like researching competitor content or creating a niche knowledge base. Other examples include staying updated on breaking news topics or developing a personalized assistant for data-driven investigative reporting.

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Hugging Face Chat

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Hugging Face Chat lets you interact with various language models tailored to support journalists with different tasks. You can choose from models like meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct for content generation, summarization, and drafting articles, or Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B for automating data extraction or analysis. If you're working with visual content, meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct can help you process and analyze images, making it perfect for fact-checking visual media or interpreting complex charts and graphs. Each model has its own strengths, making it easy for journalists to streamline content creation, data analysis, and visual interpretation, depending on the task at hand.

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IFTTT

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IFTTT is an automation platform that simplifies content distribution across multiple social media channels by enabling app integrations between different platforms. Journalists can use IFTTT to post content on one platform, such as Facebook or Twitter, and automatically share it across all their connected platforms, ensuring consistent outreach. In addition to social media, IFTTT can sync various other services like Slack, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Google Drive, providing a streamlined notification and automation system for more efficient workflow management.

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Kamala Harris News Assistant by San Francisco Chronicle

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The Kamala Harris News Assistant allows users to ask questions about Kamala Harris's career, leveraging over 29 years of archived reporting to generate fact-based responses. Using advanced language processing, it combines historical news data with real-time question-answering to provide context-rich insights. Engineers have added safeguards to ensure accuracy, integrating both Chronicle and Hearst DevHub expertise.

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Keras

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Keras is an intuitive deep learning framework that supports rapid model development for media applications like content recommendation, automation, and analytics. It provides easy integration with TensorFlow and other ML tools, making it suitable for publishers and media companies looking to deploy personalized models at scale. Keras simplifies building, training, and deploying media-centric AI models, enabling innovation in content distribution, audience targeting, and engagement.

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Kokoro Podcast Generator

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The Kokoro Podcast Generator turns text into engaging audio conversations, similar to NotebookLM, a tool that creates interactive and dynamic audio from text, allowing for a more conversational and engaging experience. It allows you to easily convert written content such as blog posts, research papers, or articles into podcast episodes or audio series. By generating dynamic audio conversations, it helps journalists and content creators transform static text into engaging auditory content. Examples include turning blog posts into podcast episodes, creating conversational narratives from research, or developing audio series from written content for broader audience engagement.

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OpenWeb

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OpenWeb provides advanced automatic moderation technology that can accurately interpret the subtleties of online discussions, such as language ambiguities, contextual toxicity, regional slang, and user emotions. When implemented on news websites, it allows publishers to filter out irrelevant spam, moderate content effectively, and boost engagement with genuine users. This solution helps create a safer and more engaging online space for readers, ensuring that interactions remain constructive and authentic.

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PEACH

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PEACH is an open-source personalization and content recommendation system developed specifically for broadcasters to improve audience engagement. PEACH stands for "Personalization for EACH". Using machine learning, PEACH surfaces high-quality content from a newsroom's archives and suggests relevant material to viewers. The platform also supports content personalization, enabling newsrooms to publish multiple formats of a single piece to cater to different audience preferences. Developed by the European Broadcasting Union, PEACH is a collection of open-source solutions that can be subscribed to either in full or individually based on a newsroom's specific needs.

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Perspective API

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Perspective API employs machine learning algorithms to evaluate and flag harmful or toxic language in online conversations. By assessing various attributes, such as offensive language, personal attacks, and explicit content, it generates a score that reflects the potential negative impact of a comment. This tool is primarily used to automate and streamline the moderation process, helping platforms ensure healthier, more respectful discussions.

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