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Press Association’s news service RADAR has written 50,000 individual local news stories in three months with AI technology

  The Press Association’s latest news service RADAR — ‘reporters and data and robots’ — uses those three ingredients to write local news stories at a frequency and precision impossible otherwise. Launched in December 2017 with Urbs Media and a €150m injection from Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI) Innovation Fund, the AI technology uses publicly […]

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Panels By Getty Images: The AI technology that suggests images by ‘reading’ your story

Struggling to find the right picture for your piece on deadline? Getty Images have introduced new artificial intelligence technology to save you from trawling through image sites. Speaking at newsrewired (7 November) Benjamin Beaven, business development manager, Getty Images, explained that ‘Panels by Getty Images’ can be a newsroom’s best friend when up against the […]

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Cybernetic newsroom: Why Reuters is marrying human and robot journalism

Reuters is driving its journalism with human judgement and machine capability, using AI tools News Tracer and Linx Insight, explained Reg Chua, executive editor, Reuters at newsrewired today (7 November). The ‘cybernetic newsroom’, as he described it, relies on the combined strength of humans and machines alike, bringing out the best in each other. Lynx […]

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Top stories straight to your phone’s homepage: How one local news organisation reaches audiences through WhatsApp broadcasts

While Facebook may be depriorisiting news on the News Feed, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is a ‘back to basics’ alternative for news organisations, says Natalie Fahy, digital editor, Nottinghamshire Live speaking at newsrewired (7 November). Fahy said Nottinghamshire Live has been using WhatsApp as an avenue to for local news audiences to sign up for daily alerts […]

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