AI Tools for Journalists

General-purpose AI assistant, great for drafts, summaries, brainstorming, and research. Useful for generating headline options, rewriting copy in different tones, and rubber-ducking story angles.

Strong at analysis, long documents, and nuanced writing. Excels at careful editing, maintaining consistent tone across long-form pieces, and identifying logical gaps in arguments.

Integrated with Google Workspace, good for research and multimodal tasks. Can analyze images and documents directly, and connects to Google Search for grounded answers.

AI writing assistant for grammar, tone, clarity, and style. Integrates with most text editors and browsers. Helps enforce AP style and maintain readability standards.

AI-powered research engine that provides sourced answers to complex questions. Cites its sources inline, making it easy to verify claims and trace information back to primary documents.

Academic research assistant that finds and summarizes relevant papers. Extracts key claims, methodologies, and sample sizes to speed up literature reviews for data-driven stories.

Upload documents and sources, then ask AI questions about them. Generates summaries, identifies key themes, and creates audio overviews. All responses are grounded in your uploaded materials.

Real-time transcription for interviews and meetings. Identifies speakers, generates summaries, and highlights action items. Integrates with Zoom and Google Meet for automated recording.

Open-source speech-to-text model supporting 99 languages. Highly accurate even with accents and background noise. Can be run locally for sensitive content requiring privacy.

Audio and video editing platform with AI transcription. Edit audio by editing text — delete a word from the transcript and it disappears from the audio. Ideal for podcast and video production.

AI image generation known for high aesthetic quality. Useful for creating illustrations, concept art, and editorial imagery. Must be used with clear disclosure in journalistic contexts.

AI image generation integrated with ChatGPT. Create illustrations, infographic elements, and concept visualizations through natural language descriptions. Supports editing and variations.

AI video editing and generation platform. Tools for background removal, motion tracking, text-to-video, and inpainting. Accelerates video production workflows for multimedia journalists.

Design platform with integrated AI features including Magic Write, background removal, image generation, and automatic layout suggestions. Makes visual content creation accessible to non-designers.

Create publication-ready charts, maps, and tables for editorial use. Widely used by newsrooms including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Der Spiegel. Responsive by default.

Data visualization and storytelling platform with templates for interactive charts, animated bar chart races, scrollytelling, and survey results. No coding required.

Upload datasets, ask questions in natural language, and get charts and analysis. Handles CSV, Excel, and Google Sheets. Good for quick exploratory analysis when you need to find the story in your data.

AI-powered claim detection and fact-checking tool developed at the University of Texas at Arlington. Identifies check-worthy claims in speeches, debates, and articles, ranking them by importance.

Browser plugin for verifying video and image authenticity. Performs reverse image search, metadata analysis, thumbnail extraction, and forensic analysis to detect manipulated or miscontextualized media.

Search engine for fact-checks published by verified fact-checking organizations worldwide. Find existing fact-checks on claims before duplicating work. Supports ClaimReview structured data.