2021 JournalismAI Collab

Participants: the Guardian (UK) and AFP (France)

Quotes are a key element of news articles. They help journalists explain events better and users form their own opinions. In this project, participants from the Guardian and AFP built a system that automatically extracts quotes from news articles and accurately attributes them to sources (people or organisations).

Explore the project on the Guardian's website

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy), Deutsche Welle (Germany), Maharat Foundation (Lebanon), and Clwstwr (UK)

At the base of this cross-border project is the concept of modules (segments of journalistic discourse) that can be repurposed in different formats with the aid of an algorithm. The focus is on building modular-first news artefacts that are specifically created for the purpose of modularisation and show how modules can be configured and reconfigured to create stories on the same topic but meeting a range of user needs through different formats.

Explore the project at modularjournalism.com

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: Bloomberg (US), Data Crítica (Mexico), La Nación (Argentina), El CLIP (Latin America)

A picture can say a thousand words. That's why this project decided to explore the use of satellite imagery and applied AI for storytelling. The primary focus has been to look at the climate crisis through this lens to see what can be reported through the observation of our planet via satellite imagery.

Find out more on the project's website

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: BR AI + Automation Lab (Germany) and Science Media Center Germany

News articles often lack context, which is crucial for understanding the story. News formats are concise and avoid transporting redundant information, which excludes already underserved groups of potential readers. Participants of this team decided to tackle this problem by linking concepts, terms, and entities from news articles to a knowledge graph to offer relevant context and definitions for readers who might lack some important background information.

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Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: MuckRock (US), La Nación (Argentina), El CLIP (Latin America), Ojo Público (Peru)

The project aims to make it easy for journalists to quickly do rough classifications and sorting of large-scale document sets across a variety of languages. Building off prior document classification and reporting work at La Nación and a prototype machine learning tool developed by MuckRock, DockIns demonstrate new ways not only for newsrooms to quickly understand and map large corpus of documents, but also help automate ongoing accountability coverage.

Explore the project on MuckRock's website

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: AzMina (Brazil), Data Crítica (Mexico), El Clip (Latin America), La Nación (Argentina)

This cross-border collaboration maps misogynistic attacks that are initiated or stimulated by political figures on Twitter. To do that, participants trained an AI model that is able to identify with a good level of assertiveness when a publication contains hate speech against women.

Explore the GitHub repository of the project

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: Media City Bergen (Norway) and local partners

This collaboration between Norwegian media houses explore whether the way journalists write their articles stands in the way of younger audiences engaging with news stories and whether adding automatic “fact-finding elements” to the stories can improve on this.

Explore the project's website to find out more

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: Sveriges Radio (Sweden)

Many journalistic podcasts have big audiences but tend to serve traditional, news-oriented audiences. By giving audiences the opportunity to find snippets related to specific topics in podcasts without having to listen through lots of other content, we can serve them better. With this project, the SR team worked on an application that segments podcasts or radio shows, transcribes the segments, tags them and clusters the tagged segments for an editor to build playlists.

Explore the project on SR's website

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and Initium Media (Hong Kong)

The project aimed to prove or disprove the theory that directing readers to articles from different sections leads to higher loyalty and subscriptions, and helps to build stronger news narratives. The team developed an AI-powered tool to recommend content based on numerous factors, creating stronger links across desks and sections.

Explore the project on the SCMP's website

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival

Participants: TX Group (Switzerland)

A storyline is a coherent, chronologically-ordered list of articles covering a sequence of events revolving around a particular phenomenon, with a beginning and eventually an end. Our ultimate goal is to provide context to our readers: we thus see storyline detection as an infrastructural building stone for better contextualisation. How can we use AI to automate storylines detection and better serve our audience?

Find out more about the project here

Watch the team's presentation at the 2021 JournalismAI Festival