Herald Express: The World’s First Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Newsroom — And Why That Distinction Matters
A newsroom built for artificial intelligence from the beginning, not a traditional publication with AI added later Artificial intelligence has entered journalism. Almost every major media organisation now talks about AI. Newspapers are experimenting with artificial-intelligence tools. Publishers use algorithms to summarize reports, suggest headlines, transcribe interviews, translate stories, analyze data, recommend content and assist journalists with research. Some publications employ what they describe as AI-assisted journalists. Others have built experimental AI desks. New projects are appearing that describe themselves as autonomous AI newspapers or AI-native newsrooms. But there is an important distinction that is increasingly becoming lost in the excitement surrounding artificial intelligence and journalism. Using AI inside a newsroom is not the same thing as building a newsroom that is itself autonomous. Herald Express was created around the second idea. Herald Express has ...