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Partnership with Axel Springer to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism

Axel Springer is the first publishing house globally to partner with us on a deeper integration of journalism in AI technologies.

OpenAI Blog
Sep 7

Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine

OpenAI, AIRPPU, and WAN-IFRA have launched an AI program aimed at supporting Ukrainian news organizations. The initiative focuses on strengthening innovation, resilience, and independent journalism within Ukraine's media landscape.

arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Epstein Files Engine: Agentic Search for Investigative Journalism

The Epstein Files Engine is an AI agent developed by the New York Times to help journalists investigate a massive mixed‑media collection released by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 30, 2026, which contains about three million pages of PDFs related to Jeffrey Epstein. The Engine translates reporter questions into Google BigQuery SQL queries across three corpora—Epstein‑related releases, the Times’s archive, and external Epstein‑related news headlines—using an LLM to plan queries and return citation‑rich answers that reporters can verify. Over 100 journalists used the Engine, contributing to at least 20 published stories, and the system includes a Diff method for text‑and‑visual duplicate matching to surface genuinely new information.

By Duy K. Nguyen, Teresa Mondr\'ia Terol, Dylan Freedman, Zach Seward
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Without journalists, there is no journalism: the social dimension of generative artificial intelligence in the media

The article reviews two decades of empirical research on artificial intelligence in media, highlighting how AI will continuously reshape journalistic work. It identifies key social and epistemological challenges, such as increased reliance on tech platforms, threats to editorial independence, and journalists’ ambivalence between job security and creative liberation. The study argues that understanding AI’s impact on audiences and journalists is essential for guiding its responsible use in journalism.

By Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Koldobika Meso-Ayerdi, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Javier D\'iaz-Noci
OpenAI Blog
Dec 17, 2025

Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations

OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a new learning hub built with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to help newsrooms use AI effectively. The Academy offers training, practical use cases, and responsible-use guidance to support journalists, editors, and publishers as they adopt AI in their reporting and operations.