Hacks/Hackers Newsroom AI Lab

Hacks/Hackers is launching a Newsroom AI Lab to support smaller newsrooms in evaluating, adopting and implementing large language models and other recent technologies, supported by a $300,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. The Hacks/Hackers Newsroom AI Lab will build lasting technical capacity in participating newsrooms through hands-on collaboration, structured technical support and development of new AI tools and templates designed specifically for journalism that can be used by any newsroom.

Over the course of a year, Hacks/Hackers technical advisors will guide small cohorts of newsrooms, with each newsroom focusing on its own AI-powered project. Newsroom AI Lab advisors will help identify a challenge or opportunity where AI might play a role in a sustainable solution, and then collaboratively scope and execute a prototype tailored to their unique workflows, team and audience.

Criteria for participating in the Hacks/Hackers News AI Lab includes:

  • Small-to-medium-sized newsroom, ideally independently operated
  • Demonstrated need and interest in AI/technical project development
  • Capacity to participate in program and decision-making
  • Comfortable with public facing documentation of partnership work

Opportunity offered by:

Hacks/Hackers

Hacks/Hackers is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit originally founded in 2009 as a meetup for journalists and technologists to improve the quality of the information ecosystem. The organization is committed to…
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Partnership

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All locations

Areas of focus

AI
Artificial Intelligence