AI Tools for Journalists
AI Tools for Journalists
Editor’s note: This is a new page so feel free to suggest any tools we should add. Use the form linked off the upper right corner of this page. Be sure to consult the articles near the bottom of the page on AI ethics and best practices for journalists.
AI TOOLS FOR WRITING
Lex.page
AI text-generation tool.
Copy.ai
AI text-generation tool.
Notion AI
Similar to Canva Docs, the revamped Notion AI (February 2023) installed an AI assistant that can offer writing/editing suggestions, generate idea lists and more.
QuillBot
An AI-driven writing tool that paraphrases what you say.
Postwise.ai
AI-driven Twitter writing tool
Craft.do
Document-creation tool with AI features
Jasper.ai
AI copywriting tool
Jenni.ai
A good writing assistant if you’re stuck with writer’s block.
Repurpose.io
Tool for automating workflows. Good for autoposting social media.
Vista Social: AI Assistant for Writing Social Media Posts
Uses ChatGPT technology to help you write better social posts. Has a free account option.
Reflect
A note-taking app with several AI integrations, like a GPT-4 AI assistant and a Whisper AI voice transcriber. You can record a voice note ramble, have the AI assistant turn it into an article outline, then have it rephrase your writing when you get stuck.
AI TOOLS FOR EDITING
Overtone.ai
Assesses stories based solely on the content itself, not secondary metrics like clicks or shares to help people communicate better
DeepL Write
Cut/paste a selection of text and this tool will tell you how to improve it. Has free and paid models
Quillbot Paraphraser
Reworks copy into a more professional style. Good for writing formal emails. Has free and paid models
WordTune Spices
Advanced word processing tool. Has free and paid models
For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.
ChatGPT
Developed by OpenAI in late 2022, the tool interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. Still in Beta and you can offer feedback to them on Discord. Drawbacks: Slow and it doesn’t cite sources (yet). Struggles with anything after 2021. But the tool has great potential in search.
ChatGPT for Google
Browser extension that allows ChatGPT to work alongside Google.
GPTZero
Princeton student Edward Tian created this tool that can detect if a piece of writing has been created using the AI tool ChatGPT. Sign up for beta of the tool through this Substack.
TweetGPT
A chrome extension that uses ChatGPT to write tweets.
MORE AI TOOLS
Adobe Firefly
Has some cool features aimed at solving problems for creatives and visual journalists: AI video editing, 3D modeling, text-to-image, photo editing and more. Be careful with ethics when using this tool on news photographs.
GIJN: How to Use ChatGPT to Extract Data from PDFs
A good step-by-step with an excellent eight-minute training video at the end.
Mem
A self-organizing workspace. It’s the world’s first AI-powered workspace that’s personalized to you.
Maker.ai
Generate written and visual content in seconds through cutting-edge artificial intelligence. $25 per month with free trial.
Canva Docs
Canva launched this tool in the second half of 2022 as a competitor for Google Docs. It includes a few AI tools, including the “Magic” tool that lets you type in a topic and it gives you some text related to that topic. It’s good for breaking writer’s block. Canva has a free account with some paid starting as low as $128 annually (Fall 2022 prices).
MidJourney
Add prompts to create designs and more.
Midjourney Prompt Book
A database of prompts to create cool visualizations using the AI tool.
FutureTools
A treasure chest of AI tools
Synthesia
Create a video from plain text in minutes. Good for creating a talking avatar
Murf
Text-to-speech tool
Prisma AI
Code to make cameras intelligent. More than ready-to-use AI libraries & APIs.
Munch
Uses AI to repurpose video content for social channels and more
Google Autodraw
An AI drawing tool that lets you sketch something on the screen and Google’s AI will search for rights-free icons that you can download and use. Good for designing logos, too. Just make sure your pop-up blockers are turned off so the icons will appear at the top of the screen.
Google Pinpoint
This tool uses AI to analyze PDFs, strip text from images and transcribe audio.
Non-Writing AI Tools Every Journalist Should Know About
AI Tools for Local Newsrooms
From PAI, an AI nonprofit that partners with journalism organizations.
JournalismAI Starter Pack
A guide designed to help news organizations learn about the opportunities offered by AI to support their journalism.
RJI YESEO App
Slack plug-in app helpful for many things, including help with writing SEO headlines.
Decktopus AI
On- demand AI presentation generator.
DeepL Translator
Works similar to Google Translate. Paste a block of text in and translate into other languages.
People AI
From chatbotkit, use these AI-driven chats to learn from some of the most influential and significant figures in human history.
ChatGPT Online: AI Advanced Chatbot by OpenAI
Discover the ultimate collection of high-quality and effective AI tools on this website, designed to meet the needs of businesses and individuals alike. Explore world-renowned tools such as ChatGPT and GPT 4, which excel in natural language processing and writing skills. For designers and creatives, the revolutionary DALL-E 2 allows users to generate custom images based on textual prompts.
Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
The ChatGPT model is a large language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like text. By providing it with a prompt, it can generate responses that continue the conversation or expand on the given prompt. In this repository, you will find a variety of prompts that can be used with ChatGPT. You can add your own prompts to the list, and to use ChatGPT to generate new prompts as well
Awesome ChatGPT
A collection of helpful links and resources.
ChatGPT Prompt Book
A guide for writing good ChatGPT prompts
WonderTools: Seven Ways to Use ChatGPT
Tips from Jeremy Caplan and CUNY
Washington Post: A News Website Used AI to Write Articles, and it Was a Journalistic Disaster
Makkula Center for Applied Ethics: Ethical Questions About Generative AI
Poynter: How Someone Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake News Organizatiobn Website
LearnGPT
The best ChatGPT examples from around the web
Build ChatGPT-like Chatbots With Customized Knowledge for Your Websites, Using Simple Programming
Hugging Face: GPT-2 Output Detector
An online demo of the GPT-2 output detector model, based on the 🤗/Transformers implementation of RoBERTa. Enter some text in the text box; the predicted probabilities will be displayed below. The results start to get reliable after around 50 tokens.
ARTICLES ABOUT AI, ETHICS, LEGAL ISSUES AND BEST PRACTICES
Writing and Exclusion: AI Helps Expand Definitions of Literacy
Interesting post from CUNY’s Jeff Jarvis on how to understand AI tools, not run from them.
Simon Rogers: AI for Data Storytelling
Forbes: AI-Created Images Aren’t Protected By Copyright Law According To U.S. Copyright Office
The Guardian: ChatGPT is Making up Fake Guardian Articles. Here’s How We’re Responding
Beginner’s Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers
Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media has created a new ebook to help publishers with the AI tool. The book offers specific examples on how to write good prompts and unexpected use cases for newsrooms.
CJR: How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Journalists?
Understanding Journalism and AI
An excellent Medium post by Corinne Podger that includes best practices, academic research, links to tools and more.
Artificial Intelligence in Local News: A Survey of US Newsrooms’ AI Readiness
Download a free .PDF of The Associated Press’ groundbreaking report that provides important insights into local news outlets’ understanding of artificial intelligence and their readiness to use AI to meet their journalism and business needs. The report is based on survey results from nearly 200 newsrooms across all 50 states and more than two dozen in-depth interviews with local news leaders. Print, radio, television and digital outlets are represented, as well as commercial and nonprofit operations. In addition to demonstrating a readiness to adopt AI and automation technologies, the report outlines what local news providers need to drive technological innovation.
Journalism.co.uk: Eight Tasks ChatGPT Can Do for Journalists
101 AI Tools You Can Start Using Today
GIJN: 10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
GIJN: Journalist’s Guide to Using AI and Satellite Imagery for Storytelling
Nieman Lab: AI Throws a Lifeline to Local Publishers
A forward-thinking article, written in late 2022, by Joe Amditis, assistant director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.
Nieman Lab: The Year AI Truly Arrives – With Reckoning
Written by Burt Herman, former AP journalist and founder of Storify.
A People’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Techzmag: Free AI
A technology website offering AI news, AI reviews, and insights on the latest AI tech advancements and provides regularly updated content.
Nieman Lab: Synthetic Media Forces Us to Understand How Media Gets Made
Written by Sam Gregory, director of programs, strategy, and innovation at Witness, the global human rights and civic journalism network.
Knight Lab: AI, Automation and Newsrooms
The Fix: AI Tools to Save Journalists Time and Money
Wonder Tools: Try These AI Writing Tools in 2023
A great collection of tools in Jeremy Caplan’s Substack newsletter.
Data Journalism: Wrangling the Robots: Leveraging Smart Data-Driven Software for Newsrooms
This Canva training video explores some of the AI tools that Canva Docs features. For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.
The Artificial Creativity Landscape
More than 180 AI tools in a downloadable PDF. Just click on the icons to find your next AI tool for creative and knowledge work.
Analytics Insight: The Rise of AI Tools for Automated Journalism
Why Local News Should be Utilizing AI
From the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.
JournalismAI
A research and training project at Polis, the international journalism think tank of the London School of Economics.
Associated Press: AI Projects and How We’re Using the Technology
Images of AI
No, it’s not robots. Here are some Creative Commons-licensed images that you can use.
How AI Can Now Falsify Satellite Images
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