
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
is partnering with OpenAI and Microsoft to help newsrooms explore artificial intelligence and how it can drive sustainability in local journalism.
A total of $10 million will be
awarded by OpenAI and Microsoft, with each providing $2.5 million in direct funding and $2.5 million in enterprise credits.
Each organization will receive a grant to hire a two-year AI
fellow who will pursue projects that focus largely on improving business sustainability and implementing AI technologies, The Lenfest Institute says.
The recipients include:
- Chicago Public Media, parent of Chicago Sun-Times and public radio station WBEZ, seeks to leverage AI for transcription, summarization and
translation.
- The Minnesota Star Tribune hopes to experiment with AI summarization, analysis and content discovery for journalists and
readers.
- Newsday, the Long Island daily, will build AI public data summarization and aggregation tools for its newsroom; this will also be
offered to businesses as a marketing service.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer will use AI to build a conversational search interface for its archives and to
monitor and analyze media produced by local municipalities and agencies.
- The Seattle Times will use AI to assist in advertising
go-to-market, sales training support, and other sales analytics; it will then roll out what it learns to other departments.
“We hope these news organizations will
be lighthouses for the industry, to provide examples of how AI can build a better future for the business of news,” says Teresa Hutson, corporate vice president, technology for fundamental
rights at Microsoft.
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