Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY Workshop: Empowering News Entrepreneurs with Generative AI

Newsroom Robots

This episode features a workshop held by Newsroom Robots’ host Nikita Roy at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program. Focusing on the practical applications of generative AI tools, she explores how these advanced technologies can empower news entrepreneurs to streamline their workflows and shares numerous use cases for their implementation in the newsroom.

Mentioned in this episode:

1. The AI generated video produced for the workshop
2. How generative AI was used to create the Newsroom Robots podcast cover art
3. Use case: Having ChatGPT act as a salesperson for a hyperlocal newsroom

AI tools discussed:

1. ChatGPT: Text generation tool by OpenAI.
2. Writer: Another text generation tool geared towards businesses with a focus on privacy and a competitor to ChatGPT
3. Lumen5: Converts text to video.
4. Eleven Labs: Text to speech voice generator.
5. MidJourney: AI image generator.
6. Poe MidJourney Prompt Bot: AI chatbot app to help you create MidJourney prompts
7. DALL-E: Generates images from text powered by OpenAI.
8. Bing Image Creator: Bing’s AI image generator based on text powered by OpenAI
9. Zapier: No-code automation tool that connects apps to create automated workflows.

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