How News Organizations Are Using AI to Advance Their Missions – OpenAI Partnership Overview

Empowering journalism

News organizations are applying OpenAI tools to accelerate reporting, verification, and workflow automation while keeping editorial control with journalists.

• The Associated Press uses OpenAI technology to help journalists scan overnight news and podcasts, verify images and video, turn Supreme Court filings into searchable data, surface stories from government datasets, recommend content, build audience metrics, and convert articles to broadcast scripts.
• POLITICO uses AI to analyze public documents for reporting and to tailor client sales experiences.
• Axios built custom GPTs for internal policies, open records requests (FOIA Refiner GPT), image captions (O Caption! My Caption! GPT), and headline suggestions (Axiomizer GPT).
• The Philadelphia Inquirer developed Scribe to summarize public meeting transcripts and rank developments by newsworthiness.
• Axel Springer uses AI across brands: Business Insider for one‑tap listening and audience commentary analysis; WELT for newsletters, fact‑checking, and source assessment.
• Future is creating an in‑house editorial platform combining AI agents, flexible workflows, and tools.
• Le Monde incorporated its translation style book into ChatGPT models in 2025 to accelerate English‑language publishing.
• PRISA Media uses OpenAI for trend tracking, audio briefings, conversational assistant Vera, knowledge management tasks like vectorization, translation, and image rights attribution.
• The Daily Beast’s Data Scouts are OpenAI‑powered agents that identify opportunities, explain business trends, and recommend next steps within Slack.
• American Journalism Project’s Product & AI Studio supports local news; Centro de Periodismo Investigativo built custom GPTs for donor communications and a ChatGPT‑powered translation workflow that inspired other newsrooms.

Growing audiences and enhancing reader experiences

Publishers are using OpenAI models to create personalized, interactive, and multilingual experiences that help readers discover and engage with journalism.

• Condé Nast’s Bon Appétit launched an AI‑powered Test Kitchen Assistant that answers recipe questions using its editorial archive.
• The Atlantic created an immersive game “Lemony Snicket’s Suspicious Incident in Dubious Park” using ChatGPT API to power character agents for interactive interrogation.
• Eater launched an AI‑powered restaurant search that connects natural language queries with 20 years of dining recommendations.
• Future launched its first two ChatGPT Plugins: Who What Wear helps users find personalized fashion looks.
• Le Monde gave every article an audio voice in 2025, using OpenAI models to generate narration after publication.
• The San Francisco Standard’s AI‑first subscriber app creates personalized briefings and interactive modules that answer follow‑up questions.
• BILD’s AI assistant Hey_ has answered over 250 million reader questions and includes tools like tax and retirement calculators.
• Chicago Public Media is transcribing 40 years of WBEZ audio archives with OpenAI models to make the collection searchable.

Strengthening the business of news

News companies are deploying AI agents to turn internal data into actionable insights for advertising, sales, and strategic decisions.

• News Corp is developing AI‑powered Knowledge Agents that combine structured enterprise data with unstructured knowledge, using OpenAI models and Model Context Protocol to securely access its global data lake while learning the semantic structure of the data.
• The Seattle Times built an AI‑powered prospecting agent with ChatGPT Enterprise that generates targeted lead lists, scores prospects, produces research reports, checks CRM activity, and drafts discovery‑call questions, reducing prospecting time from hours to minutes.