Casebook
Newsroom AI Prototypes and Governance
Six newsrooms in Latin America and East Africa on the prototypes they shipped, the ones that quietly stopped running, and the governance they wrote around them.
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Staff productivity and newsroom assistants
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Verification and fact-checking
Featured caseKenya
Lake Region Bulletin: A fact-checking agent built by non-technical editors
Two editors learned they could "code using words," then trained a ChatGPT agent on the newsroom's own published debunks.
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SpotlightKenya
Radio Domus: DigiKundi, fact-checking inside community WhatsApp groups
Trained people before software: the station equipped the WhatsApp admins already embedded in its community.
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Content repurposing across formats
Featured caseKenya
Lake Region Bulletin: Turning published stories into video explainers
A link goes in, a one-to-three minute explainer comes out — and the unsolved part is making the voice sound Kenyan.
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SpotlightTanzania
Orkonerei FM: Opus Clip, from long recordings to short clips
Off-the-shelf repurposing for newsrooms whose raw material is audio and video rather than text.
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Routine content automation
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Content discoverability and search optimisation
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Visual content production and design
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