How News Organizations Are Advancing Their Core Mission with AI

AP is using OpenAI technology to automate a variety of newsroom workflows, including overnight news and podcast monitoring, image and video authenticity verification, and structured search of Supreme Court documents. Reporters can reduce repetitive tasks and invest more time in in-depth coverage.

POLITICO uses AI to analyze large volumes of public documents and data to strengthen in-depth reporting, while its sales team uses AI to generate client-tailored sales materials, allowing them to focus on human relationships.

Axios has built numerous custom GPTs for understanding internal policies, drafting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, optimizing article captions, and proofreading for Smart Brevity style.

The Philadelphia Inquirer developed an AI tool called Scribe that monitors public meetings across dozens of municipalities and school districts. It summarizes and categorizes meeting transcripts and scores items using a news-value framework created by reporters and editors.

Axel Springer's Business Insider uses AI to support one-click listening features and reader comment analysis, while WELT applies AI to niche newsletter production and a fact-checking layer within its CMS. Le Monde, Financial Times, and others are also adopting AI for archive utilization, ad targeting, and reader experience improvements, respectively.

OpenAI has renewed its support for the American Journalism Project (dozens of outlets across 38 states), and continues its collaborations with the Lenfest Institute and WAN-IFRA.