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The 2024 U.S. presidential election may be over, but the political reporting by local media companies is shifting into a new gear. As newsrooms continue to navigate the unpredictable challenges of both national and local political coverage, innovative AI-powered tools are helping newsrooms save time and increase productivity.
Here are some of the AI tools that my clients at Ordo Digital find the most useful with their political reporting efforts.
AskNews’ Newsplunker Dashboards: Visualize And Chat With Your Data
Imagine having a crystal ball that could predict the future of news trends. Well, we’re not quite there yet, but AskNews is very close. This AI-powered research tool allows you to build a custom “Newsplunker” dashboard that tracks specific topics across the internet that you care about most.
AskNews removes bias by elucidating contradictions and alignments on polemic topics. It achieves this by leveraging AI to compare and distill information across competing perspectives derived from 212 different countries, 16 languages, and 50,000 news sources. Their clients include government agencies, international security companies, global corporations, researchers and news organizations.
“AskNews is building the largest news knowledge graph on the internet,” says Robert Caulk, founder of Emergent Methods. “Users can chat with news topics across hundreds of news sources, generate their own custom real-time analytics dashboards and even forecast events.”