The New York Times’ editorial team is using AI technology to pursue a host of stories it couldn’t tackle before, as they involved huge and messy datasets.
The team behind figuring out how to use AI to parse through hundreds of hours of video or thousands of datapoints is led by Zach Seward, The New York Times’ editorial director of A.I. initiatives. His role was created in December 2023, part of a wave of new AI-focused positions that media companies formed to figure out which AI guidelines, projects and tools to develop for the newsroom to give reporters a competitive edge.
Onstage at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Miami, Fla., last week, Seward outlined how his team is working with reporters, what tools they’ve built and what the key use cases for AI are so far. Seward has a team of eight, including four engineers, a product designer and two editors.
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