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Futuri
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Google News Initiative Training Center
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Hearken
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Looker (part of Google Cloud)
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Mather
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OpenWeb
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Parse.ly
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Viafoura
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DataWrapper
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Flourish
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IFTTT
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Google Pinpoint
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Grammarly
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Otter
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Trint
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Descript
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Google Alerts
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Meltwater
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SocialPilot
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Narrativa
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Google Lighthouse
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Perspective API
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New/s/leak (NetWork of Searchable Leaks)
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NLTK
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Scikit-Learn
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Chequeabot
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aravoices
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Twipe - JAMES
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IBC Accelerator: Live Content Moderation
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AJC Bot
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United Robots
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Full Fact
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Tableau Cloud
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Bertie
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RADAR (Reporters and Data and Robots)
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Arria
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Wibbitz
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Wochit
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Syllabs
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Automated Insights
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Happyscribe
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Sonix
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Jigsaw
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The ConversationAI Moderator App
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Echobox
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True Anthem
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PEACH
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DeepL
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Voitto
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Mecodify
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Datasketch
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Rosie
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NewsWhip
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Factmata
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Vision AI
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Amazon Rekognition
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Samdesk
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Agolo
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Amazon Polly
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ETX Studio
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Google Fact Check
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Clarifai
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Topic Pulse by Futuri Media
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Dataminr
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Lede AI
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Overtone AI
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Varia Research
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smartocto
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Provides app development expertise to attract and retain customers through their in-app experience, analytics, and rewards. Teams can use Airship products to activate, retain and monetize app audiences without ongoing developer support or app updates.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung wanted to increase reader loyalty by driving app users to its high-quality, personalized content. Airship is a key part of the publisher’s strategy to drive users to its app, with the ultimate goal of increasing visit frequency and hitting its 200,000 paid-subscribers target by 2022. Sky News uses Airship Push Notifications to deliver breaking news before its competitors — and continually engages its users throughout the day. The result: increased app traffic, which ultimately translates into greater revenue. OPB uses Airship for push and web notifications, optimization, and personalization.
Audience Engagement
Content Creation
App Platform
Event Alerts
Personalization
Story Optimization

BBC, Wall Street Journal, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Sky News, SiriusXM, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), CNBC, FOX

Beginner
https://www.airship.com/customers/
Creates dashboards of data analytics across all your pages providing real-time and historical data on audience engagement with your online content. In-depth headline testing and in-page optimization tools that allow you to understand which stories will resonate with audiences and how to customize your news offerings to audiences.
Investigative
Audience Analytics
Story Optimization

The Hill, Insider, CBS News, The Root, The Verge, NPR, New York Times, JapanTimes, PBS News Hour, Washington Post, Vice, Forbes, Kompas, Refinery 29, South China Morning Post

Some Technical Knowledge
https://chartbeat.com/
Comment moderation tool that allows moderators to identify disruptive comments and surface the best submissions. Allows newsrooms to track more data on engagement and readership without additional ads.
Allows users to sign into a platform and engage with the news content. Allows journalists to filter out trolls and negative comments flagged by the AI.
Audience Engagement
Investigative
Sentiment Analysis
Comment Moderation

Washington Post, Fairfax Media, Seattle Times, Mother Jones, LA Times, De Utrechtse Internet Courant

Advanced Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
https://coralproject.net/
A public insights tool from Meta that makes it easy to follow, analyze, and report on what’s happening with public content on social media. Crowd Tangle tracks: when something was posted; the type of post (video, image, text); which page or public account it was posted from or which public group it was posted to; how many interactions (likes, reactions, comments, shares) or video views it received, which other public pages or accounts shared it.
Journalists use CrowdTangle Search to search across Facebook or Instagram for content relevant to their reporting. Social media managers track their own account performance and compare themselves to the competition with CrowdTangle Intelligence. TV producers broadcast real-time streams of social posts related to breaking news events using CrowdTangle Live Displays. Fact-checkers identify posts that contain misinformation. Researchers analyze trends across thousands of accounts over time and report on how information spreads.
Investigative
Audience Analytics
Data Analysis
Fact-checking
Event Alerts
Social Content Discovery
Data Visualization
Free

BBC, Univision, PBS, Refinery 29, Bleacher Report, Buzzfeed, Rappler, Tegna

Accessible to All
https://www.crowdtangle.com/
Audience management and comment moderation tool. Disqus allows you to integrate comment sections into your site. User moderation allows you to follow your users throughout your site and assigns them a "grade" based on their engagement. Comment moderation tool flags spam content for you. Cross-site Disqus notifications and email notifications bring commenters back to your site. Data analysis of engagement allows you to understand where your readers are coming from and how they engage with your site. Ad optimization tool allows you to turn engagement into ad leads and incorporate additional ad space to their websites.
4 key offerings: engage audience through comment moderation, retain readers through email notifications from across platforms, understand audience engagement through an engagement dashboard, monetize engagement through an ad optimization tool that shows you new areas you can advertise on your content and provides potential leads for ads.
Audience Engagement
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Comment Moderation
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Entertainment Weekly, Rotten Tomatoes, Boston Herald, PBS

Accessible to All
https://disqus.com/features/engage/
Includes several services to help drive audience engagement for local news. Topic Pulse uses AI to parse social media data to help news organizations figure out what they should be posting about and what is currently trending. Futuri also provides an easy to create video service that allows news organizations to put together quick videos from their written stories with ready-to-go footage database.
Primarily used to drive audience engagement with news content through data analysis and predictive AI to let news publishers know which stories the audience is most interested in.
Audience Engagement
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Social Content Discovery
Video Generation
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iHeartMedia, Bell Media, Cumulus Media, Cox Media Group, Summit Media, WIBC-FM / Network Indiana, Praise FM

Accessible to All
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
https://futurimedia.com/about/
The Google News Initiative provides a data solution suite that includes: the News Tagging Guide, News Consumer Insights, and Realtime Content Insights. News Tagging allows you to generate tags on your site to collect better data on where your users are coming from. The News Consumer Insights then allows you to use the data collected to optimize your site and provides actionable recommendations to increase revenue on your website. Lastly, Realtime Content Insights provides you with real-time data on which of your content pieces are gaining traction and which topics are trending in your region.
San Fransisco Chronicle uses it to improve mobile subscriptions by collecting data on their users. They discovered their highest subscription rates were from newsletters and as a result doubled down on their newsletter-subscriber acquisition efforts. By analyzing the subscription rate data they were able to modify their promotion strategy to their readership.
Audience Engagement
Content Creation
Distribution
Lead Generation
Investigative
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Audio Generation
Transcription
Image Recognition
Copy Editing
Document Analysis
Free

Netzwelt, Rappler, Dainik Jagran

Some Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computer Vision
https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/training/datatools
Audience management and community engagement technology. Hearken allows newsrooms to automatically categorize questions from the public into different themes and topics. The Engagement Management System allows you to gather audience data and what stories matter most to your audience. The Community Management System, Switchboard, tracks user interactions, comments, and questions and allows you to organize and respond to them. Hearken also provides training and consulting offerings to their users.
News organizations use Hearken to allow them to identify stories that matter most to their audiences and, when published, will resonate or provide higher engagement.
Audience Engagement
Lead Generation
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Content Generation
Data Analysis

BBC, Graham Media Group, KQED-FM, WHYY-FM, Seattle Times, KPCC-FM, Philadelphia Inquirer

Accessible to All
wearehearken.com/
Data Visualization software complete with a library of templates or the ability to build your own custom visualization. In addition, Looker's data dashboard allows you to filter for particular pieces of data.
Business intelligence, embedded analytics, and visualizations
Audience Engagement
Investigative
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
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Some Technical Knowledge
Mather provides data and analytical tools to help you manage subscriptions. Analytics-as-a-service offerings that allow you to understand what drives subscriptions on your platform and what steps to take to increase subscriptions.
Mather advises publishers around best practices related to subscriber acquisition given their current data and user numbers. Implementing steps like dynamic pricing, subscription walls, and newsletter subscription.
Audience Engagement
Audience Analytics
Story Optimization
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Accessible to All
https://www.mathereconomics.com/listener-mathers-data-analytics-platform/content-analytics/
Automatic moderation technology that is built to understand the nuances of conversation — language ambiguity, contextual toxicity, local slang, user sentiment, and more.
Embedding Open Web on news websites enables publishers to filter out spam, moderate content, and increase engagement from real users.
Audience Engagement
Comment Moderation
Free

AOL, Refinery 29, Yahoo!, Huffpost, Wall Street Journal, IGN, New York Post, Fox News

Accessible to All
https://www.openweb.com/
Parsely helps you visualize the performance of your content across all your platforms and channels so you can know exactly how to best engage with your readers. Parley uses over 30 "attention metrics," subscriber tracking, and segmentation of sub-groups to capture user engagement.
Content Analytics tools for publishers to see where their audiences are currently engaging with the content and provide avenues for further engagement.
Audience Engagement
Audience Engagement
Personalization
Data Visualization
Audience Analytics
Data Analysis
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Wired, Gatehouse Media, Medium, Slate, Bloomberg, Sky, NBC, PolicyGenius

Beginner
https://www.parse.ly/
A customer-acquisition platform equipped with a series of tools that allow you to better engage your audience and drive subscriptions. The tools suite includes data analytics on user engagement, personalized content for your audience, and content moderation.
Audience insights translated into content creation and auto-moderation of comments. The personalization capabilities enable the tailoring of content and feed for individual users.
Audience Engagement
Distribution
Audience Analytics
Personalization
Comment Moderation
Audience Engagement
CMS

The Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily Star, CBC, The Independent, Postmedia Network

https://viafoura.com/
Datawrapper is a data visualization tool that lets you show your data as interactive and responsive charts, maps, or tables.
Used by journalists to create and embed data visualizations in stories or articles. Data Wrapper requires no coding or design skills.
Investigative
Content Creation
Data Visualization
Data Analysis
Free/Paid Plans

New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Quartz, Vox Media, The Times of London, Statistics Flanders, Aftenposten

Accessible to All
https://www.datawrapper.de/
Platform for data visualization and storytelling including: maps, quizzes, timelines, and photo sliders. Flourish includes live data updates, custom branding setup (including design templates), and legal paperwork support. Flourish offers training to newsrooms on using the platforms as well.
Journalists use Flourish to embed data visualizations into articles including maps, population data, and overall data analysis.
Investigative
Content Creation
Data Visualization
Data Analysis
Free/Paid Plans: "We have partnered with Google News Lab to make Flourish available for teams in qualifying newsrooms. To qualify: The principal aim of your organization must be public-facing general news journalism. Outlets covering a specific topic or industry are not eligible for access."

BBC, Comcast, Sky, Yahoo!, Cabin Radio, Mail & Guardian, Tokikom, Maldita.es, Clarín

Accessible to All
https://flourish.studio/newsrooms/
IFTTT streamlines the distribution of content over different social media channels through automation. It allows for app integrations across platforms. In particular, IFTTT has specific functions for syncing content between these platforms, such as keeping Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter profiles in sync.
Journalists primarily use IFTTT to share content on one platform and then automatically post it across all remaining platforms. Can also sync your Slack, calendar, Gmail, and Google Drive together for a more seamless notification system.
Distribution
Process Automation
Scraper
Social Media Publishing
Free/Paid Plans

Honeywell, GE, Bosche, Google, IFTTT integrates with more than 70 apps

Accessible to All
Automation
https://ifttt.com/
Pinpoint is a research tool that helps you perform advanced key word searches on and analyze large collections of documents with up to 200,000 documents per collection. Pinpoint supports PDFs, images, audio files, email archives, and more. Pinpoint can also automatically transcribe audio and video files. It can also identify commonalities and organize by theme, location, or people in large amounts of files.
Pinpoint can be used for investigative stories, breaking news, audio transcriptions, fact-checking, archive search, and massive file organization and labelling. It can also search across different mediums including searching for text within images.
Investigative
Document Analysis
Fact-checking
Transcription
Free

Washington Post, Centre for Public Integrity, Slow News, Public Health Watch, CAIJ

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/
Automatic suggestions for spelling, grammar, and writing optimization.
Supports writing across platforms as a plug-in. This includes emails, messages, documents, projects, and social media.
Lead Generation
Copy Editing
Free/Paid Plans

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Tech Crunch, Forbes

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
https://www.grammarly.com/
Otter records meetings, takes notes in real-time, and generates an automated content summary. Otter can also keep a searchable record of all your meetings.
Can be used to capture and transcribe interviews and meetings with sources. Otter can also be accessed across multiple platforms, including Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
Lead Generation
Transcription
Text Generation
Free/Paid Plans

Zoom, IBM, Dropbox, UCLA

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
https://otter.ai/
Turns audio and video into text that is searchable, editable, and shareable in up to 34 languages. Trint can translate content into more than 50 languages. Trint also allows several users to collaborate on content and make live edits.
Audio and video transcription for videos, press conferences, interviews, etc. Trint can live capture content as well and generate closed captions for all your video content. The search function also allows you to search all previous content and re-use it.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Transcription
Text Generation
Translation
Free/Paid Plans

Washington Post, Associated Press, Der Spiegel

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
https://trint.com/
Descript is an editing tool for video or audio which allows you to edit content by turning audio into text that you can just cut out by deleting the text or even add new content in by typing it into the text. It can also auto-delete filler words (such as "um").
Descript allows you to edit and publish video and audio content on the platform and publish to your social media platforms directly. The platform also allows for collaboration with your team to edit and publish.
Content Creation
Distribution
Text Generation
Transcription
Video Editing
Free/Paid Plans

BBC, NPR, CNN, Vice, New York Times, ESPN, Al Jazeera

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
https://www.descript.com/
Google Alerts allow you to set up an alert on a series of keywords that you'd like flagged on the internet. Alerts then sends you updates whenever webpages, articles, research, and more get changed. Alerts can be sent via email or directly to an RSS feed.
Used by journalists to monitor any keywords of interest for articles and keep on the pulse of their development.
Lead Generation
Event Alerts
Free
Accessible to All
https://www.google.com/alerts
Meltwater is a content management and audience engagement platform. With Meltwater you can track when topics are trending, when high profile social media users mention your topic, when major news outlets mention your topic, etc. Meltwater can also be integrated with Microsoft Teams and Slack.
Meltwater is used to determine trending topics. It can also be used to monitor social media and post to various social media channels.
Lead Generation
Investigative
Distribution
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Event Alerts
Data Analysis
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The Economist, Google

Beginner
https://www.meltwater.com/en
Social Pilot is a Content Management System that allows you to schedule content across social media platforms, check analytics, and engage with followers.
Content Management System
Audience Engagement
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
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UN, ACLU, United Way, Carnegie Mellon University, Walmart

Beginner
https://www.socialpilot.co/
Narrativa uses natural language processing to auto-generate long-form content, headlines, and subject lines to increase click-through rates to your content.
Narrativa can generate multiple variations on calls-to-action, headlines, and content that will resonate with your audience. It also generates long-form content optimized for SEO. For eSports, Narrativa can generate real-time and in-game commentary that includes game stats. For sports, Narrativa auto-generates content using game stats to summarize match highlights.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Data Analysis
Text Generation
Content Generation
Story Optimization
Summarization
Request Info

Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones

Some Technical Knowledge
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://www.narrativa.com/
Google Lighthouse is an open-source automated tool used to improve the quality of webpages. Lighthouse runs a series of audits on a given webpage and generates a report on the page’s performance, accessibility, search engine optimization, and more.
Audience Engagement
Data Analysis
Process Automation
Free
Some Technical Knowledge
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/
Perspective uses machine learning models to identify abusive comments online. According to its website, these models “score a phrase based on the perceived impact the text may have in a conversation” based on certain attributes such as profanity, identity attack, threat, sexually explicit content, etc.
Automating comment moderation
Investigative
Comment Moderation
Free

Wall Street Journal , Reddit, New York Times, Financial Times, OpenWeb, Taringa!, Le Monde, El País, Coral

Some Technical Knowledge
https://www.perspectiveapi.com/how-it-works/
Aids in the information collection process by allowing users to explore large amounts of textual data. More specifically, the tool uses both language technology and data visualization to illustrate the relationships between important entities (people, organizations, places) within datasets like those distributed by Wikileaks.
Investigative
Data Visualization
Data Analysis
Free
Some Technical Knowledge
https://www.newsleak.io/
This Python library provides a suite of extremely useful functions and corpuses for analyzing natural language. If you need to build a custom tool that requires tokenizing sentences or finding the antonyms and synonyms of words, few other products make doing so through code so seamless.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Investigative
Free
Advanced Technical Knowledge
Natural Language Processing
https://www.nltk.org/
This Python library provides a number of robust off-the-shelf machine learning models. It also provides functions for transforming raw text into vectors that those machine learning models can understand.
Investigative
Content Creation
Free

Télécom ParisTech, AWeber, BNP Paribas Cardif

Advanced Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/
A tool that automatically identifies claims in the media and matches them with existing fact-checks. The bot draws upon natural language processing and machine learning to help perform everyday tasks for fact-checkers — who are already using it in the newsroom.
Lead Generation
Fact-checking
Free

Chequeado

https://github.com/chequeado/chequeabot
A tool used to produce synthetic brand voices and convert text into audio formats in real-time.
Synthetic voices from aravoices can be optimized for specific contexts, such as journalistic content, and provide a basis for different audio formats like a reading-out-loud function, playlists, or voice apps. The text-to-speech technology consists of a machine learning model that can be used to develop and train synthetic brand voices, as well as a synthesis pipeline that imports individual texts, converts them, and delivers them as audio files.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Text Generation
Text-to-speech
Free

Die Welt

Accessible to All
https://www.aravoices.ai/
JAMES technology enables news organizations to increase reader engagement with automated one–to–one personalized newsletters, push notifications, or web sections. It uses the power of machine learning to create personalized reading lists for your readers.
Content Creation
Investigative
Audience Engagement
Audience Analytics
Personalization
Event Alerts

The Daily Mail, Le Monde, The Times of London

www.twipe.org
Leverages AI-driven metadata for video to perform automated content moderation in a live scenario for editorial news teams, professional, and freelance broadcast journalists. This allows newsrooms to content moderate on live broadcasts through automated detection of potential infringement on editorial standards.
Automated content moderation in live production workflows, enables broadcasters to comply more accurately and effectively with their editorial standards obligations internally and with regulatory compliance externally, allowing producers to focus on their content rather than its management.
Lead Generation
Audience Engagement
Comment Moderation
Audience Engagement
Video Editing

Al Jazeera, Associated Press, BBC, Metaliquid, Reuters, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, TV Conal, TVU Networks

Beginner
Automation
Computer Vision
https://www.ibc.org/ibc-showcase/ibc-accelerators-live-content-moderation/6134.article
AJC Bot is focused on auto-writing real estate-related articles. The bot reviews county sales records and automatically generates draft articles tailored to ZIP codes in the area.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution uses this bot to automate its coverage of housing sales in various counties across Atlanta without time and resource investment from its reporters.
Lead Generation
Data Analysis
Transcription
Text Generation

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Natural Language Processing
https://www.ajc.com/atlanta-real-estate-report/2020-how-and-why-ai-was-used-to-create-the-report/lh4SQwy3TwTKPuqNjLzxRL/
United Robots uses a combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) to produce text from structured datasets. The stories can be written with different angles depending on target audience. In addition, United Robots offers a translation service that includes context-specific translation of idioms from included languages.
For each story, the tool is given a set of fixed parameters, such as length, the inclusion of a headline and an intro, which data points to include, and how many texts to generate. Once the parameters are in place, the algorithm can design the text and create text variation within the story scope.
Lead Generation
Text Generation
Audience Analytics

Mediahuis, McClatchy, Bonnier News Local, Aftonbladet, MittMedia, Stampen Local Media, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, HSS Media

Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
https://www.unitedrobots.ai
Full Fact has developed algorithms for automated fact-checking to be used in newsrooms to verify claims being made by politicians, government officials, journalists, and in viral content online.
Collecting data from live speeches or events, identifying and labelling claims being made, matching claims, real-time fact-checking. This tool can be used in newsrooms to identify claims being made, label them, or live fact-check them.
Investigative
Fact-checking
Accessible to All
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://fullfact.org/about/automated/
Tableau is a data analytics platform to support data-driven journalism. Data Stories is a feature in Tableau that adds automated plain-language explanations to Tableau dashboards at scale, helping customers understand and interact with data faster.
Tableau supports telling stories with data. You can gain further insights into large data sets, transform them into visualizations, and make connections between text-based data.
Investigative
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Starting at $15/Month
Some Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
https://www.tableau.com/products/cloud-bi
Bertie helps reporters with news article templates and content recommendations. It can recommend article topics to contributors based on their earlier pieces and also suggest headlines and images that are in sync with the sentiment of their stories.
Bertie is used as a content management system. Newsrooms use it to provide preliminary content for an article that a reporter can edit and add to. In addition, Bertie can suggest links to relevant articles that can be used to support the content in the article or suggested to the reader for further reading.
Lead Generation
Personalization
Text Generation
Sentiment Analysis

Forbes

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/forbes-doubles-monthly-visitors-with-bertie-an-ai-driven-cms/
RADAR is an automated article writer that uses existing datasets of sports scores, real estate data, etc. to auto-generate articles ready for publishing.
RADAR is used by newsrooms to automate short articles related to sports results, real estate sales, or other regular updates. RADAR is able to write for local news changing the outputs depending on the locality given, allowing local news to write different stories for each locality.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Fact-checking
Text Generation
Request Info

Global Editors Network, Local News in the UK

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
https://pa.media/radar/
Arria uses natural language generation (NLG) technology to write reports and articles using insights its gained from analyzing datasets. Arria can produce copy for news rooms that mimics the newsroom's existing writing style, as well.
Arria can combine data processing, story generation and news distribution into one tool, making it easy for editors to produce stories all on one platform using only raw data. The stories can also be customized to local news using templates designed by journalists.
Content Creation
Distribution
Text Generation
Document Analysis
Data Analysis
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Microsoft, Urbs Media, BBC

Some Technical Knowledge
Natural Language Processing
https://www.arria.com/
Wibbitz is an online video creation software that allows you to create videos that are customizable to the various social media platforms and from design templates that fit your newsroom's brand.
The online news report video maker makes it easier and faster to create video-based news reports by providing newsrooms with a library of pre-made videos of trending stories, licensed images, and videos and the ability to customize your designs.
Content Creation
Distribution
Video Generation
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Reuters, Taboola, NBC, USA Today, TMZ, The Weather Channel

Accessible to All
Automation
https://www.wibbitz.com/
Wochit can help automate parts of your video creation process by customizing videos to your templates, integrating with your website or social media platforms and providing templates for videos.
Wochit is a one-stop platform for video creation and publishing allowing journalists to publish videos that fit the newsroom templates and designs and automating publishing on multiple platforms.
Content Creation
Video Generation
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Insider, UN Development Programme, Prisma Media, Gannett, Viacom, CBS, Toronto Star

Accessible to All
Automation
https://www.wochit.com/
Syllabs' artificial intelligence automatically generates quality short text from long-form articles. Syllabs can also automatically link to your other articles. Through this platform you can created personalized marketing campaigns for your audience.
Journalists use Syllabs to help automate content generation for local markets covering, for example, real estate news or municipal elections.
Content Creation
Distribution
Text Generation
Data Analysis
Content Generation
Request Info

Radio France, Mediafin, Le Monde, Ouest-France, Citya Immobilier, Solocal, Visit.alsace, French Ministry of Culture, ImmoFacilie

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
https://www.syllabs.com/fr/
A natural language generation platform that can pull insights from a database and turn it into sentences and words that can be included in articles.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Text Generation

Accuweather, Yahoo!, Associated Press

Advanced Technical Knowledge
Natural Language Processing
https://automatedinsights.com/wordsmith/
AI-powered transcription and subtitle services in the most common languages.
Lead Generation
Transcription

BBC, Forbes, Raidió Teilifís Éireann

https://www.happyscribe.com/
Automated transcription, translation, and subtitles for video material.
Lead Generation
Transcription

Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros., ABC News, New York Public Radio, Wikimedia Foundation, VICE, NBCUniversal, Adobe

https://sonix.ai/
Jigsaw from Google is a platform for several services combatting misinformation, hate, and extremism online. Its services include Assembler, which helps journalists and fact checkers identify manipulated media, and Moderator, an open-source tool that uses machine learning to help moderators identify and reduce toxicity in forums and comments sections.
Jigsaw includes a suite of open-source tools, some of which use algorithms and machine learning to reduce toxicity in engaging with audiences by sifting through comments and interactions online. Additionally, it can automate fact-checking for news sources.
Investigative
Audience Engagement
Comment Moderation
Fact-checking
Free
Beginner
Natural Language Processing
https://jigsaw.google.com/
An open-source tool that uses machine learning to help moderators identify and reduce toxicity in forums and comment sections. The rules of content moderation can be configured based on the newsroom's content moderation rules.
Newsrooms can install this free tool in order to auto-moderate their audience engagement online. The GitHub repository includes a step-by-step manual for installing and running the algorithm.
Audience Engagement
Comment Moderation
Free
Beginner
Natural Language Processing
https://github.com/conversationai/conversationai-moderator
Echobox predicts language that will resonate with audiences, suggests relevant hashtags, optimizes the timing of posts, and spots content that is worth republishing at other times. With natural language processing technology, Echobox generates "share" messages automatically.
Echobox automates publishing and optimizes it for your audience. This includes newsletter-writing and social media presence. Echobox will write content, suggest optimizations, and offer analytic insights based on engagement.
Distribution
Newsletters
Social Media Publishing
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Newseek, Seattle Times, CNBC, NPR, Maclean's, National Post, Vancouver Sun

Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://www.echobox.com/
True Anthem uses AI to increase traffic to your website and save time by selecting the best content for each social platform, posting it at a time that generates the highest engagement.
True Anthem is used by journalists to automate social media publishing. This tool optimizes the distribution of content using the data collected on your audience's engagement. The dashboard allows journalists to find high-preforming content and edit headlines or copy.
Distribution
Social Media Publishing
Audience Analytics
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Reuters, ABC Televison Group, Fox TV Stations, ViacomCBS, The Atlantic, USA Today Sports, CBS Local Media, American City Business Journals, Al Jazeera, Bell Media

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Automation
Natural Language Processing
https://www.trueanthem.com/
Peach is a personalization and content recommendation system developed specifically for broadcasters. Peach uses machine learning to surface quality content from the newsroom's archives and make suggestions on recommended content. Peach also allows for experience personalization or publishing multiple formats of a single piece of content.
Peach is a collection of open-source solutions which can be subscribed to in their totality or individually depending on your newsroom needs. This solution was developed by the European Union public broadcasters union.
Investigative
Distribution
Audience Analytics
Social Content Discovery
Recommendations
Data Analysis
Free

Public Broadcasters ARD (Germany), TG4 (Ireland), RTS (French-Swiss), RTP (Portugal), BR (Germany), SR (Sweden)

Some Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
Automation
Natural Language Processing
https://peach.ebu.io/
DeepL is an automated translation service that can capture the subtleties of translation specific to each culture. DeepL uses blind testing to continually assess its language models and ensure the accuracy of translations.
DeepL provides speedy document and text translation for journalists. It allows newsrooms to offer their content in multiple languages with accuracy and language nuance.
Content Creation
Distribution
Translation
Free tier with limited characters. Paid tiers with additional features.

Le Monde, Golem.de, La Stampa, RTL Z, La Repubblica, WIRED, TechCrunch

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Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
https://www.deepl.com/translator
An open-source, article-writing bot developed by Finnish broadcaster Yle. The bot is mainly used for sports auto reporting. However, it can also be used for personalized notifications or content recommendations as well.
Voitto helps automate certain tasks (like editing short videos or writing short factual articles) and adds value to existing processes such as personalized push notifications to users with suggested articles that may be of interest to them.
Content Creation
Video Generation
Text Generation
Process Automation
Free

Developed by YLE News Labs

Some Technical Knowledge
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://yle.fi/news/3-10126261
MeCoDEM’s (Media, Conflict and Democratisation) open-source tool for simplifying big data analysis and visualization. Mecodify is especially focused on analyzing data collected from social media platforms.
Mecodify can be used to visualize data about social media trends.
Investigative
Data Visualization
Data Analysis
Free
Some Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
http://www.mecodem.eu/mecodify/
Data Visualization tool that can turn large data sets into understandable visualizations for various audiences. Datasketch allows you to share the visualizations on various platforms. It also allows you to combine your data with other open data sets in their repository for more rich and useful data.
This tool promises the ability to create a visualization with just three clicks. After uploading the data, the visualization is generated and you have the ability to edit it to your liking.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Investigative
Data Visualization
Free accounts available, plans range from $10 to $500 a month.

Miga, Muy Waso, Ojoconmipisto.com, Ojo Público, Cuestión Pública, Diálogos

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Automation
https://www.datasketch.co/
Rosie is an AI that can be used to monitor public spending and share it in plain language that is accessible to the public. The AI can also flag suspicious transactions or inconstancies encouraging further investigation of them.
Rosie is used to monitor public spending, pointing out patterns or inconsistencies for both the public and newsrooms for further investigation.
Lead Generation
Data Analysis
Free

Open source for the Brazilian community

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Machine Learning
https://serenata.ai/
NewsWhip is a real-time media monitoring platform that predicts the stories and topics that will trend in the hours ahead, giving journalists and reporters the ability to take action stories ahead of time.
NewsWhip allows newsrooms to get an understanding of the level of public and media interest behind any topic or event using real-time dashboards. NewsWhip allows you to track emerging trends, discover breaking stories, and find the best social platform opportunities to release your stories.
Lead Generation
Social Content Discovery
Audience Analytics
Event Alerts
Sentiment Analysis
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Axios, World Health Organization, MKR Marketing Agency, NewsGuard

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Machine Learning
https://www.newswhip.com/
Factmata analyzes social media, articles, etc. to group together similar opinions into narratives. Narrative monitoring is automated and turned into insights on popularity and virality of topics.
Journalists use Factmata to do media monitoring of trending topics and public narratives and gain understanding into large and complex conversations that are happening online.
Investigative
Lead Generation
Social Content Discovery
Audience Analytics
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Bloomberg, Financial Times,

Forbes, Quartz, The Telegraph

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Automation
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
https://factmata.com/
Vision AI allows you to build, deploy and manage computer vision applications. That way you can train machine learning models to classify images, detect objects, read handwriting, and build image metadata using pre-trained models and its API.
Newsrooms use this tool for archival purposes to create a digital archive of their photos that easily searchable using AI. In addition, Vision AI can be used to sift through hours of footage and identify pre-determined objects, which can be helpful for investigative or nature journalists.
Investigative
Content Creation
Data Analysis
Image Recognition
Video Suggestions
Tiered pricing with free options.

Google, New York Times

Advanced Technical Knowledge
Computer Vision
https://cloud.google.com/vision/
Automated image and video analysis. Rekognition can analyze images, videos, or live video streams and identify objects using AI. This can be used for content moderation, face detection, labeling, and archival purposes.
Journalists can use Amazon Rekognition to label objects, scenes, or landmarks to be flagged in videos, pictures, or livestreams. It can also be used for celebrity recognition, identifying well-known people to catalog photos and footage. Additionally, it can be used for content moderation, flagging any content or visuals that go against community guidelines.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Image Recognition
Search Engine
Video Suggestions
Tiered pricing with free options.

PBS, Pinterest, New York Times

Some Technical Knowledge
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
Samdesk is a monitoring platform with real-time crisis alerts. Samdesk can alert you to critical and breaking news events. It can also connect you with first person input with witness accounts from the scene including pictures, videos, and live traffic updates.
Provide alerts to journalists for potential breaking news as well as ongoing live updates. Samdesk is also multilingual providing the content in the native language it was produced in. Lastly, Samdesk can be configured to provide information with location relevance to your locality.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Event Alerts
Fact-checking
Image Recognition
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PA Media

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Natural Language Processing
Automation
Computer Vision
https://www.samdesk.io/
AI-powered summarization engine. Agolo can create summaries across multiple resources, creating personalized summaries depending on the objective and audience. Agolo can also conduct personalized searches through documents spotlighting insights.
For journalists, Agolo can be a powerful tool in summarizing many sources in a matter of minutes providing quick insights into journalistic research. It can also make large documents more readily searchable to inform stories.
Investigative
Text Generation
Summarization
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Investors: Google, Colombia University, Ridgeline

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Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
https://www.agolo.com/
Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk. Polly also supports a newscaster speaking style that is tailored to news narration use cases. Amazon Polly Brand Voice can create a custom voice for your organization that is exclusive for all your products.
Can turn written news into podcasts, provide voiceovers to news clips, and create a customized voice for a news organization that isn't attributable to any single individual.
Content Creation
Text Generation
Audio Generation
Free tier available, pay as you go ("$4.00 per 1 million characters").

Washington Post, USA Today, CBSi Korea, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Some Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
ETX Studio allows you to create multi-format content (written, audio, video) in several languages and accents thanks to neural synthetic voices.
Allows the outsourcing of content production in various formats, translates content, and generates audio from written content. This allows journalists to generate content in multiple formats using only written word.
Content Creation
Distribution
Text Generation
Audio Generation
Video Generation
Content Generation
Video Editing
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France TV, MSN, Yahoo!, La Tribune, The Star, Elle

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Natural Language Processing
https://etxstudio.com/
When publishers write a fact-checking article, they can add the schema.org/ClaimReview markup to that article. This markup is structured data that contains information about the fact-check — for example, what was the claim being assessed, who made the claim, what was the verdict, and more.
Attaching ClaimReview to a fact-check article will allow search engines to easily recognize that it is a fact-check article and thus render it as such in search results and other surfaces.
Distribution
Fact-checking
Free
Beginner
Automation
https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/about?authuser=1#fcmt
Clarifai can process any volume of images, videos, text, and audio data, using AI to index the data as its added. This, in turn, allows for labeling and annotating the data using the algorithm at a much faster pace.
These models can be used out-of-the-box or fine-tuned to detect explicit content, faces, embedded objects, and text within images as well as predict various attributes such as celebrities, food items, textures, colors, and more.
Investigative
Data Analysis
Verification
Image Recognition
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Google, Canva, Trivago

Some Technical Knowledge
Computer Vision
https://www.clarifai.com/
Topic Pulse uses AI to predict trends and news in a specific locality while providing real-time monitoring of the evolution of the topic.
Predictive AI identifies what your audience is talking about right now, what is about to go viral, what's starting to get stale, and what engaging stories will engage your audience best.
Lead Generation
Audience Analytics
Social Content Discovery
Sentiment Analysis
Event Alerts
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Rogers, Bell Media, Virgin Radio, Tribune, Summit Media, iHeart Media

Beginner
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
https://futurimedia.com/solutions/topicpulse-content-advantage-for-digital-publishing/
Dataminr can be used to discover early reports of breaking news and gain an edge in covering news stories. Dataminr uses public data inputs from social media and other sources including text, images, video, and sound.
Dataminr provides alerts to relevant unfolding news reports that may require further reporting. The alerts are categorized by topics relevant to you and provides updates as events evolve.
Lead Generation
Social Content Discovery
Event Alerts
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CNN, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle

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Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
https://www.dataminr.com/
Lede AI automates news reports and publishes them to websites automatically. The algorithm varies the content so that no two stories look the same. Lede AI is primarily focused on automated sports reporting.
Journalists and newsrooms use Lede AI for high school and college sports reporting, automating the process so that they don't have to dedicate resources to local sports coverage.
Content Creation
Text Generation
Depends on the size of the newsroom, free trials available.
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Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Automation
https://www.ledeai.com/
Overtone uses algorithms to assess the efficacy of the content in an article and its engagement, allowing you to compare between various articles on one platform and decide which should be profiled or shared further.
Newsrooms can use this tool to decide which articles should be included in newsletters or shared as a business opportunity for advertisers
Distribution
Audience Engagement
Newsletters
Sentiment Analysis
$250/mo up to 5K articles with a complimentary content audit. Volume discounts apply.

The Shift, Institute of Non Profit News, Preamble

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Automation
overtone.ai
Varia research allows journalists to spot new stories through customizable feeds of both news and social media outlets. This tool allows for research organization by story and can use machine learning to summarize and provide insights from saved stories as well as suggests further research articles.
Journalists can use this tool to spot new stories, research ongoing ones and organize there sources all in one place. The summarizing tool saves writers time by providing summaries from research articles.
Lead Generation
Content Creation
Document Analysis
Recommendations
free plans available, premium plans €11/month
Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
https://www.varia.media/
smartoco is an editorial analytics system for newsrooms that provides insights into realtime and historic data into your website traffic. smartoco also provides data informed recommendations for your future content strategy.
Journalists can use the data dashboards for quick and actionable insights to how their content is performing. smartco can also be used for easy a/b testing and also provides recommendations based on how your content is performing.
Distribution
Audience Analytics
Recommendations
Story Optimization
Sentiment Analysis
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DPG Media 

Mediahuis

Reach PLC

Rio Negro

Some Technical Knowledge
Machine Learning
https://smartocto.com/
NOTA has three main offerings for fast content analysis, creation and management. 1. SUM: Summarizes long-form content, generates headline suggestions, optimizes for SEO and creates key points. 2. VID: Turns long-form content into video by leveraging AI, stock images or your existing image library. 3. BRIEF: Highlights main talking points from any piece of written content for snapshot and preview uses.
Editorial teams can use NOTA to generate headlines, summaries, quotes and SEO keywords from their content using large language models. Newsrooms can use their written or audio content to generate videos of their content to reach new audiences or reach their audiences in new ways.
Content Creation
Distribution
CRM
Text Generation
Content Generation
Copy Editing
Video Generation
Social Media Publishing
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LA Times, Baltimore Banner, Arena Group including: Sports Illustrated, Men's Journal, F1, The Street

Beginner
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://www.heynota.com/
A suite of tools for journalists including: transcription, analyzing audience engagement, managing the publication pipeline, written content creation and newsletter management.
Journalists primarily use Legitimate for its content creation features, such as: article suggestions based on real time information, help with title optimization, idea suggestions, meta tag generation, social post generation, create audio version of the article, background information and statistics, outline formation and editorial review. Legitimate does not create an article for journalists, it provides a host of tools to enhance article production.
Content Creation
Distribution
Lead Generation
Audience Analytics
Content Generation
Fact-checking
Recommendations
Newsletters
Free to $29.40 per month
Accessible to All
Natural Language Processing
Automation
https://legitimate.net/
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