Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Local newsrooms are using AI to listen in on public meetings
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE
May 29, 2013, 1:30 p.m.
LINK: aboutus.ft.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Justin Ellis   |   May 29, 2013

The Financial Times launched a new, mobile-friendly news wire today with an emphasis on speed and brevity. It’s called fastFT, and it’s something like a traditional news wire mixed with a Twitter stream, delivered both in a newsfeed on FT.com as well as on a standalone page. Like most content from the FT, fastFT is free to subscribers and available to other users under a meter.

Here’s a screenshot. Compare and contrast with the similar stream model at The Wall Street Journal.

Market-moving news and views, 24 hours a day - FT.com

Show tags
 
Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.
Local newsrooms are using AI to listen in on public meetings
Chalkbeat and Midcoast Villager have already published stories with sources and leads pulled from AI transcriptions.
You can learn a conference’s worth of data journalism through these NICAR tipsheets
From AI to OSINT, maps to the sports section, it’s a data journalism jubilee.
“More alarming by the day”: New York Times investigations editor on the legal threats faced by news publishers
“The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level. Whether they’re Trump supporters or not, they’re taking cues from the President of the United States.”