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Cool AI examples
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Nieman Lab: How Three Newsrooms are Charting Different Paths for AI Use
Derek Willis Claude Apps
Examples of quick apps you can build to help readers. Here’s an example of a crime stats app.
The Community AI Workflow Hub
The Rundown’s one-stop shop to learn how everyday builders are actually applying AI — and to share your own. It’s a good way to network and find examples of how journalists and others are using AI.
Lenfest Institute: Solution Set: What Works Best for AI Experimentation in Newsrooms
Nieman Lab: A Record-Breaking Eight Pulitzer Awardees Disclosed AI Use This Year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
Digiday: How Time and Others Are Rebuilding Parts of the Web for AI Agents
Nieman Lab: How 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners Used AI in Their Reporting
Missing in Chicago
Pulitzer Prize-winning project by City Bureu and The Invisible Institute, which trained a machine-learning model to analyze police misconduct files.
LegiTalk from CT Mirror
Tool that summarizes Connecticut legislative meetings and provides transcriptions for reporters to use. They can then click forward to the section of the video to confirm the transcript.
INMA: Hearst Newspapers Leverages AI to Build Local Content, Reader Loyalty
THE CITY: We Asked AI to Map Our Stories Across NYC
THE CITY has a mission to cover neighborhoods in all five boroughs. ChatGPT helped tell them how well they’re living up to that goal.
SF Chronicle: How AI Depicts San Francisco – And What It Gets Wrong
The Chronicle asked four generative AI models to depict today’s S.F., its residents and how the city would look in 2074.
SF Chronicle: ChowBot
AI-driven recommendations on where to eat in the Bay Area.
SF Chronicle Kamala Harris News Assistant
The Chronicle describes it as “an AI-powered tool designed to answer your questions about Harris’ life, her journey through public service and her presidential campaign. Drawing from thousands of articles written, edited and published by Chronicle journalists since 1995, this tool aims to give readers informed answers about a politician who rose from the East Bay and is now campaigning to become one of the world’s most powerful people.”
San Antonio Express News: Spotify Unwrapped – How San Antonio’s Music Scene Differs
Hearst’s Dev Hub built this tool for several of its markets.
Scroll.in
An Indian digital news publication founded in 2014 that does audience-driven work with AI. Example: It uses slider the reader controls so they can receive information in as much or as little detail as they like. Read more.
Baltimore Times: Pedals of Resilience
Project on Black bicyclists shows how AI can assist in brainstorming and can be “programmed” to reflect a publication’s mission and values.
Nieman Lab: How Three Newsrooms are Charting Different Paths for AI Use
Nieman Lab: The Rise of the Throwaway News App
Matt Waite on vibe-coded apps and tools
Derek Willis Claude Apps
Examples of quick apps you can build to help readers. Here’s an example of a crime stats app.
The Community AI Workflow Hub
The Rundown’s one-stop shop to learn how everyday builders are actually applying AI — and to share your own. It’s a good way to network and find examples of how journalists and others are using AI.
Lenfest Institute: Solution Set: What Works Best for AI Experimentation in Newsrooms
Nieman Lab: A Record-Breaking Eight Pulitzer Awardees Disclosed AI Use This Year
Five winners and three finalists detailed their AI adoption to the judging committee.
Digiday: How Time and Others Are Rebuilding Parts of the Web for AI Agents
GenAI in the Newsroom: How Newsrooms Are Using GenAI to Surface Restaurant Reviews
Hampshire Chronicle: AI in Local News – How our Newsroom is Benefiting From its Adoption
Lenfest Institute: AI Tools Powering Innovation in Technically’s Newsroom
ONA: Archive of AI Case Studies in Newsrooms
The Audiencers: AI in the Newsroom: Five Use Cases to Leverage AI in Your Operations
GenAI In the Newsroom: How a Danish News Service Made a Profit with its Transcription Tool
Hacks/Hackers: Successfully Using AI in the Newsroom: Newsroom Leaders to Follow
Ask Nellie from The City
Chatbot offers all kinds of advice on things to do, etc.
Hugging Face Spaces
How people are using AI. Many cool examples
Watch.RunwayML.com
Examples of videos built with Runway
View Magazine: How AI Helped Me Capture My Father’s Rich, Unknown Life
GenAI in the Newsroom: Keeping Track of Newsroom AI Use Cases
The Economist: The World Ahead
75 articles available in this NotebookLM
The Minnesota Star Tribune Fair Bot
AI-driven guide to vendors at the Minnesota State Fair.
The Making of Edgar Matobato: PCIJ experiments with using AI for storytelling
JAMES
A “digital butler” developed by The Times and The Sunday Times that media can use to personalize the distribution of newsletters by learning from reader behaviors and preferences. By personalizing content, The Times and The Sunday Times was able to reduce the unsubscribe rate on their newsletters. Contact them for access/pricing.
The Guardian MCP Server
Lets your favorite AI model talk with 2 million articles from The GuardianAvailable on GitHub, it can be installed in any MCP client, though Claude Desktop is probably best. It uses Model Context Protocol, made by Anthropic.
Google Career Dreamer
Use this tool to develop new directions for your career with this free site. Enter your skills, etc. and it builds a map of jobs for you.
Scam Empire
OCCRP investigation into scam call centers. Used AI for video and audio analysis
Alltext.nyc
Search a term like “Times Square” or “Tribeca” and it will give you images of signage, etc. around the city with lat/long. location.
How The Atlantic and Other Media Are Using Google’s NotebookLM
The Local Lens
An AI-powered public meetings database. It’s a starting point for journalists, advocates and others doing research at the local level. Be careful as the summaries are all written by computers.
Tracking AI Innovation in European Newsrooms
Clearinghouse of dozens of examples of how newsrooms are using AI. It’s an open-source initiative to track, analyze, and share how newsrooms are implementing AI solutions.
Zero1cine
Free collection of AI movies
RogueNewz
An AI-driven news channel on Roku and YouTube
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