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Artificial intelligence is already used by journalists and news organisations in a variety of different ways. Many experiments and collaborations pop up on a daily basis, showing how a responsible use of AI and machine learning can open up new opportunities, as well as improving existing workflows and tools.
AI in journalism is not just a buzzword: it's already employed across the news making process.
In this page, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism. To facilitate your navigation, we have divided the case studies in different categories – from newsgathering to personalisation.
If you want to know more about one of these examples, and to contact the people behind them, get in touch with Mattia to get introduced. That's the power of the JournalismAI network!
Financial Times tool warns if articles quote too many menFinancial Times | November 2018
To apply Machine Learning responsibly, we use it in moderationThe New York Times | April 2020
How KPCC embraced its role as LA's helpdesk – and what we've learned along the wayKPCC | May 2020
Scaling responsible Machine Learning at the BBCBBC | October 2019
Analyzing bias in Natural Language modelsThe New York Times | March 2020
How El País used AI to make their comments section less toxicEl País | March 2019
Identifying biases in the newsSchibsted | March 2020
Using AI to host better conversationsThe New York Times | May 2018
Bergens Tidende uses AI to reveal newsroom biases, diversify coverageBergens Tidende | August 2020
Calculating corruption: Peru's Ojo Público creates tool to gauge contracting risksOjo Público | October 2020
We cracked the Panama Papers with 400 human brains. Can AI help us next time?ICIJ | March 2019
Reuters is taking a big gamble on AI-supported journalismReuters | March 2018
How Quartz used AI to help reporters search the Mauritius LeaksQuartz | July 2019
Journalism and AI team up to measure missing storiesEl Universal | June 2019
Digitizing a century of history with dataSouth China Morning Post | May 2020
We trained a computer to search for hidden spy planes. This is what it foundBuzzFeed News | August 2017
Leprosy of the landTexty | March 2018
Spotting circling helicoptersQuartz | April 2019
Dissecting a Machine Learning powered investigationArtificial Informer | April 2019
We uesd AI to identify the sex of 340,000 people harmed by medical devicesICIJ | November 2019
Facebook ads reveal what the Democratic candidates think will sway South Carolina votersQuartz | February 2020
Concrete and coral. Tracking expansion in the South China Sea Reuters | May 2018
We've got bad news!Texty | November 2018
GE CEO letters decoded: Shrinking ambitions and disappearing buzzwordsThe Wall Street Journal | March 2019
We recommend articles with a little help from our friends (Machine Learning and reader input)The New York Times | January 2021
How The Times of London increased digital subscribers 19% in a yearThe Times of London | August 2019
How Swiss news publisher NZZ built a flexible paywall using machine learningNeue Zürcher Zeitung | June 2018
Yle's smart news assistant Voitto ensures that you don't miss the news you want to readYle News | October 2018
BBC launches pop-up Corona Bot service to answers questions on Covid-19 related changesBBC | May 2020
Bloomberg Media creates new tool to make readers, advertisers swoonBloomberg | May 2020
With "My WSJ", The Wall Street Journal makes a personalized content feed central to its appThe Wall Street Journal | December 2017
Not all news site visitors are created equal. Schibsted is tryng to predict the ones who will paySchibsted | February 2018
BBC will use Machine Learning to cater to what audiences want to watchBBC | October 2017
Reuters applies AI technology to 100 years of archived video to enable faster discoveryReuters | August 2020
How AI can help predict subscription cancellation and keep readers engagedDeep BI | February 2020
A look at Toutiao: China's Artificial Intelligence powered news platformToutiao | December 2018
How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers – and what it's learned so farPiano | August 2019
Times titles halve digital subscriber churn with tailored emails from AI named 'James'The Times of London | May 2019
The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual readerThe Wall Street Journal | February 2018
This media startup is beating the competition with a newsroom run by robotsJX Press Corp. | May 2018
USA's Trib Total Media boosts AI-backed hyperlocal journalismTrib Total Media | January 2021
Me, you and the machineBBC | July 2020
How an AI system is boosting business at The Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail | April 2020
How The Wall Street Journal is building an incubator into its newsroomThe Wall Street Journal | August 2019
Facial recognition, automation and datasets: How Sky News uses AI to unburden journalistsSky News | May 2019
China's news agency is reinventing itself with AIXinhua News Agency | January 2018
How Reuters uses robots to analyse data and humans to tell the storiesReuters | November 2018
Forbes is building more AI tools for its reportersForbes | January 2019
How The Wall Street Journal is using Deep Learning to inform content strategyThe Wall Street Journal | October 2019
Graphical storytelling: Extracting and painting a fresh perspectiveBBC News Labs | February 2020
What the AP and Newsday learned from automating coverage of 124 school districtsAssociated Press | February 2020
Reuters uses AI to prototype first ever automated video reportsReuters | February 2020
Automating our coronavirus coverageThe Times of London | April 2020
The Washington Post's robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past yearThe Washington Post | September 2017
How we built a cutting-edge NLP model to generte SEO titlesAxel Springer | September 2020
RADAR has written 50,000 individual local news stories in three months with AI technologyPress Association | November 2018
China releases first short video AI production platformXinhua News Agency | December 2018
Why I created a robot to write news storiesThe Guardian | February 2019
Swedish Aftonbladet uses automation to outpace competitors with its Covid-19 news coverageAftonbladet | March 2020
Can synthetic media drive new content expeiences?BBC | January 2020
What happens when bots become editors?United Robots | March 2020
The Wall Street Journal uses Narrativa's AI for its news automationThe Wall Street Journal | January 2021
Stories by numbers: How BBC News is experimenting with semi-automated journalismBBC | March 2019
IBM's Wimbledon-watching AI is poised to revolutionize sports broadcastsIBM | July 2019
Swedish Radio leverages Peach recommendations for content production Swedish Radio | April 2020
AI learns to write headlines (but not this one)Primer | May 2019
Nine improves its image at scale with AI projectNine | January 2021
How we use AI to help fact check party manifestosFull Fact | December 2019
The new tool helping Asian newsrooms detect fake imagesStoryful | February 2020
Tool to help journalists spot doctored images is unveiled by JigsawJigsaw | February 2020
In Argentina, fact-checkers' latest hire is a botChequeado | January 2018
Full Fact secures $2 million Google AI grant to fight misinformationFull Fact | May 2019
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakesThe Wall Street Journal | November 2018
Making a 'deepfake': How creating our own synthetic video helped us learn to spot oneReuters | March 2019
Spotting fact-checkable tweetsQuartz | July 2019
Quartz AI Studio launches an open-source platform to help journalists use Machine Learning Quartz | January 2019
Axel Springer Academy to integrate Artificial Intelligence into its curriculumAxel Springer Academy | February 2020
"Artificial Intelligence is not the future – It is happening right now"Cardiff University | November 2019
The New York Times has a course to teach its reporters data skills, now open-sourceThe New York Times | June 2019
Rise of the robots: Coming to a first-year intro to journalism class near youLehigh University | June 2019
US community journalists can learn about algorithms thanks to $100k AI ethics grantCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY | April 2019
To find photos in our archive, we taught the CMS how to readThe New York Times | October 2020
How does this article make you feel?The New York Times | October 2018
Announcing the launch of the Stanford Cable TV News AnalyzerThe Brown Institute for Media Innovation | August 2020
Getty Images launches a new AI tool that helps pusblishers find the right picture for the storyGetty Images | August 2018
Schibsted announces collaboration in responsible AI with KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySchibsted | February 2020
We built an 'unbelievable' (but legal) facial recognition machineThe New York Times | April 2019
Here's how The Washington Post's new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020The Washington Post | July 2019
How The New York Times uses software to recognize Members of CongressThe New York Times | June 2018
Entering the next century with a new Forbes experienceForbes | July 2018
Bloomberg Media's Innovation Lab launches "The Bulletin" – an AI-powered news feedBloomberg | September 2018
Estimating 3D poses of athletes at live sporting eventsThe New York Times | June 2020
AI & auto-colourisation – Black & White to colour with Machine LearningBBC | September 2019
We are always on the lookout for new case studies, but inevitably we are going to miss something. Do you want to help us to keep this list up-to-date? Please send us the most interesting applications of AI in journalism you come across so that we can expand the list week after week and make the best examples available to everyone, everywhere.
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