How AI is Being Utilized in Newsrooms

View recordings of all five lectures from our fully booked AI breakfast at Pressens Hus in Oslo.

The Tinius Foundation gathered some of the best editorial AI minds in the Nordics for an AI breakfast on August 31st. During the breakfast meeting, experiences were shared, and specific tips for editorial work with prompts and artificial intelligence were provided.

The presentations were mainly aimed at journalists, developers, and editorial leaders seeking better and more precise results through artificial intelligence.

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«Could SvD Kultur use AI tools as a “coworker”? Experiments and learnings.»

Madelaine Levy, Svenska Dagbladet

Madelaine Levy is the deputy cultural editor and development editor at Svenska Dagbladet. She is passionately dedicated to exploring how new technology can lead to meaningful innovation in journalism. Levy developed the SvD project "AI lyssnar på poddar" (AI Listens to Podcasts), an editorial project that analyzed Sweden's biggest podcasts using artificial intelligence.

Learn how Svenska Dagbladet has used artificial intelligence as a 'participant' in editorial meetings.

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«How Ekstra Bladet has worked with prompts and AI to develop journalistic tools and features – success & failures.»

Tore Rich, Ekstra Bladet

Tore Rich is the Content Automation Manager at the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet. With a dual background as a journalist and developer, he has been working with artificial intelligence in the newspaper's strategic development department since 2020.

Discover how Ekstra Bladet has developed various journalistic tools and how AI-generated content reaches the readers.

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«How I use ChatGPT to become a prompts expert in Midjourney.»

Marius Arnesen, NRKbeta

Marius Arnesen is an editor at NRKbeta and has worked at NRK since 2001 on various development projects. Among other things, he contributed to creating the prototype for NRK's first "broadband TV." In addition to being a technology enthusiast, he has also worked in the field on several TV productions, such as "EXIT Afghanistan," "Norge i Krig – Oppdrag Afghanistan" (Norway at War - Mission Afghanistan), and "Monsen på villspor". Over the past year, he has delved into the AI landscape, focusing mainly on the image generator MidJourney.

Find out how ChatGPT has made him an expert on image prompts in MidJourney.

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«How I built a fully automated news website using AI.»

Johan Eliasson, OneLab

Johan Eliasson is an engineer, hacker, and entrepreneur. Although not directly affiliated with the media industry, he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at OneLab. Before joining OneLab, he was the CEO of Nhost, where he developed infrastructure tools for developers.

In a short span, he created his English-language news service (nyheter.sh) with machine-generated images based on the audio from Sweden's Radio news broadcasts, artificial intelligence, a handful of prompts – and significant developer expertise.

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«How VG and Schibsted work with prompts to generate accurate summaries of news articles.»

Thomas Whitington, Schibsted

Thomas Whitington serves as a Senior Data Scientist at Schibsted. Along with a small team from Schibsted and VG, they have experimented with solutions and prompts that allow AI to write publishable short versions and fact boxes based on the original article.

Join Thomas on the journey from concept to finished product.