Bitskout

Media Estonia IRCAI Global Top 100

Bitskout is a software platform that helps accounting, legal, and other professional services firms double their bandwidth without hiring extra headcount by managing client requests, customer onboarding and information intake.

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Clip2Story

Media United States of America JournalismAI

Clip2Story utilizes OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo to transcribe news video clips and summarize the transcripts into initial story drafts. This prototype web application aims to reduce the workload for journalists by automating the creation of digital content from video sources, thus increasing efficiency and allowing reporters to focus on other important stories. The process begins with video uploads that are transcribed using the Trint API, followed by journalist review for accuracy. Once approved, the transcript is summarized, and relevant keywords are generated for the CMS. This system not only speeds up the reporting process but also enhances local news coverage by providing a quick turnaround for breaking stories.

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Google Alerts

Media United States of America Partnership on AI: AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database

Google Alerts is a monitoring tool that lets you track specific keywords across the web, receiving notifications when new content matching those terms is published. Users can customize their alerts to cover various types of content, such as news, blogs, or research, with updates delivered via email or an RSS feed. This tool is commonly used by journalists to stay informed about emerging topics and track ongoing stories for timely reporting.$

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Workflow and Other General Operations

Google Lighthouse

Media United States of America Partnership on AI: AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database

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

Media United States of America Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

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

Media United States of America Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

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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Kokoro Web

Media United States of America Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

Kokoro Web is a browser-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) application that converts written text into audio. It allows users to generate voiceovers for videos, create audio versions of articles, or produce accessibility content. The app runs entirely within the browser, eliminating the need for installation or external software. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it is free for commercial use, making it a versatile tool for journalists, content creators, and those focusing on accessibility.

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Lede AI

Media United States of America JournalismAI

Lede AI is a company that uses artificial intelligence to assist news organizations, particularly local and independent newsrooms, by automating content creation for specific, routine topics. By parsing and transforming structured data (e.g., sports scores, public records) into readable, informative articles, Lede AI allows newsrooms to cover more ground with fewer resources, especially for stories with a high volume but relatively low complexity. The AI operates as a content production tool, optimizing time and labor for newsrooms with limited staff, making it especially useful for small to mid-sized publishers.

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OmniParser

Media United States of America Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

OmniParser is a tool designed to convert graphical user interface (GUI) screens (the layout and elements you see on an app or website) into structured elements, making it easier for newsrooms to extract and analyze data from visual sources. Journalists can use it to turn app screenshots (images of the app's interface) into structured data, extracting specific information for reporting or research. This tool helps transform visual data into formats that can be processed and analyzed, streamlining the work with complex user interfaces (the interactive part of apps or websites). Examples for newsroom use include analyzing news apps and converting visual information into usable structured data for investigations.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Workflow and Other General Operations

Operación Retuit

Media Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) JournalismAI

Operación Retuit monitors social media to track and report incidents of harassment against journalists in Venezuela. It collects data to create a comprehensive picture of the threats journalists face, helping to raise awareness and mobilize support for press freedom. Awareness is raised through AI-generated episodes, hosted by AI hosts, as a safety measure in a context of high political persecution. The episodes are posted on connectasorg's Instagram account.

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