AI in Journalism Challenge 2023 - Final Report

The second section reviews the tangible outcomes of the program and describes the “funneling” of projects from the proposals in the initial applications, to the teams selected to participate in the program, to the finalist projects, to the eventual program winner (and runner up). [...] The major elements of this process included the schedule, the criteria and methodology for selecting participants, the partner consultants and organizations, and the components of the participants’ experience. [...] This section describes those specific outcomes in the order in which they were achieved, beginning with the initial application process and the selection of the participants, the definition and building of those projects, the selection of the finalists, and the concluding selection of a winning project, as well as an “honourable mention.” 113 Applications The AI in Journalism Challenge began with. [...] The discussion of the practically of The Conversation’s “microsite” project was dominated by the views of several of the judges about the usefulness of microsites as a concept, and the risk of a combination of low traffic and high maintenance burden. [...] An excellent example of this is The Initium’s project, which sought to enable the automated and systematic monitoring of a large and dynamic corpus of global news sources in the Chinese language, for the purpose of identifying emerging news stories and using the breadth of source materials to identify patterns and trends.