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Legitimate

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

Legitimate offers a comprehensive set of tools designed to support journalists in various aspects of content creation and publication. These include features for article idea generation, title optimization, meta tag and social media post creation, as well as tools for transcription, audience analysis, and editorial review. While Legitimate does not write articles, it provides valuable assistance to streamline and enhance the journalistic workflow.

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Mecodify by MeCoDEM

Media Country or Region Egypt Sourced From Partnership on AI: AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database

Mecodify is an open-source tool developed by MeCoDEM (Media, Conflict, and Democratisation) to simplify the analysis and visualization of big data. It is particularly designed to analyze data collected from social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), allowing users to track trends and patterns. The tool provides intuitive data visualizations, helping to uncover insights about social media conversations and their potential impact on media, conflict, and democracy.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

Minutes

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From JournalismAI

The Minutes application scrapes, transcribes, and summarizes city council meetings from various video sources. It provides a searchable database of meeting content, allowing users to easily access and navigate important public discussions, thereby enhancing transparency and civic engagement.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Production

Narrativa

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From The next wave of disruption: Emerging market media use of artificial intelligence and machine learning

Narrativa’s platform uses AI to automate content creation for media companies, including generating articles, reports, and news summaries from data. By processing large datasets, it enables faster content production, improving efficiency for newsrooms. This technology is particularly useful in reducing the time spent on routine reporting tasks while ensuring content remains accurate and relevant.

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olmOCR

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators

olmOCR converts PDFs and other documents into plain text while preserving natural reading order. It supports complex elements like tables, equations, and handwriting, making it ideal for processing academic papers and technical documents. Users can run olmOCR on their own GPUs, enabling high-throughput document conversion at scale. This allows for cost-effective processing, estimated at just $190 per million pages, making it suitable for large-scale academic and technical archives.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

OmniParser

Media Country or Region United States of America Sourced From 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

OpenWeb

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

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.

Distribution and Audience Engagement

Operación Retuit

Media Country or Region Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Sourced From 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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Originality.ai

Media Country or Region Canada Sourced From Journalists Toolbox

Originality.ai is a comprehensive tool that can help, among others, journalists ensure the authenticity of written content. It detects AI-generated text, helping journalists and editors maintain transparency and credibility in their reporting. The tool also checks for plagiarism, ensuring that sourced material complies with copyright and originality standards. With readability analysis and fact-checking capabilities, it helps refine content for clarity and accuracy, streamlining editorial workflows. Ideal for media outlets, it integrates seamlessly into existing systems via API, making it a reliable solution for producing high-quality, trustworthy content.

Newsgathering and Fact-Checking Production

Otter

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

Otter is a tool that transcribes audio from meetings, interviews, and discussions in real-time, generating automated summaries. It integrates with popular platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, making it convenient for journalists to capture key information from conversations. Additionally, Otter allows users to organize and search through the transcriptions, helping to quickly reference important details from interviews or meetings.

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