Hello! This is Sergei.
This week we this newsletter is focusing on AI tools for journalists and its usage.
Two Swedish investigative journalists, Anton Berg and Martin Johnson, just launched something ambitious. They're investigating the most famous murder in Swedish history — Prime Minister Olof Palme, killed in Stockholm in 1986. Nobody knows who did it.
They're using AI to analyze the massive pile of data police collected back then. Thousands of documents, witness statements, files — the kind of chaos that would take years to process manually. They're documenting the whole thing in a podcast (it's in Swedish, unfortunately). Thanks to Mia Sahl for pointing this out.
And here's the perfect complement to that — Florent Daudens from Hugging Face just launched a repository of open source AI tools specifically for journalists. It's not fully packed yet, but I'm watching it closely.
(In the meantime, check our repository of AI related resources on AI For Newsroom)
New on AI For Newsroom this week
Stories, guides, initiatives, and signals we surfaced in this issue.
🎤 AI Search and News. Panel Discussion
Journalism AI Skills
UK To Google: Let Sites Opt Out Of AI Overview
Editorial must own AI implementation with engineering support
News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
How newsrooms move from AI pilots to infrastructure
Coding Agents for Investigative Journalism
Discover isn’t the only place Google is experimenting with AI-generated snippets
News Revenue Hub uses AI, first-party data to explain donor behaviour
Small models, big results: Achieving superior intent extraction through decomposition
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