How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions
OpenAI has published an overview of how news organizations around the world — including AP, POLITICO, Axios, and Le Monde — are using AI. The roundup covers use cases spanning reporting itself, reader experience, and business operations.
Details
- News organizations featured: AP, POLITICO, Axios, Philadelphia Inquirer, Axel Springer (Business Insider, WELT), Future, Le Monde, PRISA Media (EL PAÍS, Diario AS), The Daily Beast, Condé Nast (Bon Appétit), The Atlantic, Eater, San Francisco Standard, BILD, Chicago Public Media, News Corp, and the Seattle Times, among others
- Reporting uses: Scanning overnight news for reportable developments, verifying images and video, converting complex documents into searchable information, monitoring public meetings and generating summaries, multilingual translation, and custom GPTs for FOIA requests, captioning, and style checking
- Reader experience uses: Interactive recipe assistants built on editorial archives, personalized restaurant recommendations, AI-powered games and interactive storytelling, audio narration of articles, and news briefings customized by location and interest
- Business operations uses: Data analysis and prospect identification for sales, audience analytics and content recommendations, knowledge management and content vectorization, and real-time subscriber support chatbots
- OpenAI’s commitments: Continued support for the American Journalism Project, backing dozens of publications across 38 states; collaboration with the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and WAN-IFRA; and the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, an initiative for sharing AI use cases and learnings across the industry
- Quote: OpenAI states, “While AI is an important tool, people remain at the very center of this work — from frontline journalism, to editorial direction, to critical business decisions”
How to try it
This isn’t a specific product launch — it’s a roundup of how news organizations are using AI. Outlets interested in adopting similar approaches can look into the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations or read OpenAI’s full announcement for more detail.