2023 Fellowship
Meet the 2023 JournalismAI Fellows and explore their projects
The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative where journalists and technologists from news organisations collaborate to improve journalism using AI technologies
We selected 30 journalists and technologists from 14 news organisations across the world to take part in the second edition of the Fellowship programme. Fellows collaborated in six self-selected teams on six different projects.
Learn more about the 6 projects and meet the 2023 JournalismAI Fellows:
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BiasBlocker aims to develop an AI plugin for journalists, editors, and media organisations to detect bias and discrimination in real-time, in English and Arabic content. The plugin utilises natural language processing, and machine learning to analyse text in the media ecosystem.
Team: Bias Blocker
Fellows:
Kevin Nguyen | Digital Journalist/Producer, ABC
Maryanne Taouk Digital Producer | Local Communities Reporter, ABC
Saja Mortada | Arab Fact-Checker Network Manager, ARIJ
Khalid Waleed | Digital Manager, ARIJ
Defne Altiok | Journalist/ Editor at +90 - Deutsche Welle
Ipek Baris-Schlicht | Data Scientist, Deutsche Welle
Watch the team’s presentation at the 2023 JournalismAI Festival
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Team Niche aimed to develop a tool that allows for articles to be tailored for a local news audience. The tool will first identify the topics discussed in an article and determine how relevant each topic is to the target audience compared to the population as a whole. Using this information, the article is rewritten using LLMs to provide additional information such as quotes and statistics.
Team: Niche
Fellows:
Julian Kamau, Project and Digital Manager, Nation Media Group
Oliver August, CTO and Innovation Officer, Nation Media Group
Watch the team’s presentation at the 2023 JournalismAI Festival
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Daisy aspired to develop an AI framework that allows natural language queries on structured datasets, similar to interactions with ChatGPT. The tool aims to have the ability to use everyday language to query anything from election data, to databases on misinformation and the economy. In their envisioned MVP, users will receive output in the form of English text. Further development stages will include text in other languages and visualizations of the output.
Team: Daisy
Fellows:
Caroline Lindekamp | Project Lead, CORRECTIV
Andrew Ong | Editor (Product and Innovation), Malaysiakini
Vashiegaran Manogaran | Fullstack Engineer, Malaysiakini
Ankit Kumar | Deputy Editor, India Today
Piyush Aggarwal | Editor, India Today
Watch Daisy's presentation at the 2023 JournalismAI Festival
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TIMELARK is a journalistic research tool that makes complex timelines easy to explore and understand. Highlighting conflicting information and suspicious connections, TIMELARK uses Temporal Knowledge Graphs to extract journalistic insights from trusted sources.
Team: Timelark
Fellows:
Ned Davies, Investigative Producer, BBC
Galen Reich, Research and Development Engineer, BBC
Ian Knopke | Senior Data Scientist, Reuters Innovation, Reuters
Evangeline De Bourgoing | Senior Product Manager, Newswires, Reuters
Karina Shedrofsky | Head of Research, OCCRP
Jan Strozyk | Chief Data Editor, OCCRP
Watch TimeLark’s presentation at the 2023 JournalismAI Festival
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NoticIA aims to build a framework that enables newsrooms to create AI-powered chatbots based on their content. Using Large Language Models, the project will provide instructions and code examples to help organisations interact with readers while minimising the risk of inaccurate AI responses.
Team: Noticia
Fellows:
Sergio Spagnuolo | Managing Editor and News Product Director, Nucleo Journalism
Michel Gomes | Lead Developer, Nucleo Journalism
Bruno Fávero | Innovation Director, Aos Fatos
Rhenan Bartels | Senior Developer, Aos Fatos
Tomás Rudich | Debunking Coordinator, Newtral, Newtral
Borja Lozano | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Newtral
Watch NoticIA’s presentation at the 2023 JournalismAI Festival
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MP Interests Tracker is a Python library for data journalists. The research tool analyses who pays members of parliament in the UK, providing journalists ideas for investigations.
Team: MP Interests Tracker
Fellows:
Clare Spencer (PC) | Research and Development Producer, BBC News
Maryam Ahmed | Senior Data Scientist, BBC News
Juan Ginzo | Principal Data Scientist, The Times
George Lindsay-Watson | Deputy Engagement and Innovation Editor, The Times
Watch MP Interests Tracker's presentation at the 2023 JournalismAI Festival