In the past decade, there have been huge technological advancements due to the development of computing power and machine learning techniques. So we increasingly rely on AI tools to work, learn, and complete everyday tasks.
This huge advance in AI technology has changed the way journalists work. Machine learning algorithms are now helping investigative journalists uncover stories hidden in the data. Other tools help them gather information, prepare for interviews, translate and edit content, and more.
Therefore, journalists, especially the most experienced, do not see AI tools as a threat, but as a very important supporting tool, as it allows them to quickly obtain new information, identify new trends and analyze big data. Automating repetitive tasks helps increase their productivity. Increase your productivity and save time.
While text generation tools like ChatGPT grab most of the headlines, there are many tools for every step in the journalistic process, from gathering information to creating images, creating audio versions of stories and text articles, and even distribution.
Here are the most useful AI tools for journalists:
1- Jasper robot:
Jasper is based on the same language model as the ChatGPT bot, but is trained to write original and creative content quickly. It can create long-form articles, social media posts, emails, and SEO articles in more than 25 languages.
Jasper supports several features that help journalists write more efficiently, including:
- Jasper chat feature that allows you to have a natural conversation with a bot to ask for new ideas on a topic you want to write about, or to help reorganize content while maintaining high quality, among other things.
- (Creative Stories) helps you write creative stories in just a few minutes.
- Content Optimization is a feature that optimizes your content to make it more engaging and interactive where you can ask your audience questions to increase engagement.
Also, the best feature of the bot (Jasper) is its pattern recognition, which learns your writing style to create content similar to your writing style.
2- NewsWhip:
Real-time monitoring of events and topics is essential for journalists to keep up with the fast pace of news, and NewsWhip can help with that by tracking audience and media interest to predict what stories and topics will happen over the next few hours. Post what they need. The clarity and confidence you need to make quick decisions.
This tool supports a variety of features to help you stay on top of topics and events, including:
- (Highlights) which reviews every attribute you've set over a period of time across all locations and networks, then compares the dates you've visited to an earlier period, then summarizes the most important changes you need to know for yourself, making sure you don't miss an important story.
- The Peaks Highlight feature analyzes long-term topics or events to help you quickly understand which ones are grabbing audience and media attention.
3- Narraket Tools:
(Narakeet) that allows you to easily create the videos you need for your business, as well as convert text into audio clips for audio recordings to video. It supports more than 80 languages including Arabic and more than 500 phonetically different dialects, genders and ages.
You can also use this tool to turn your presentation into a video with audio, music, texts, and subtitles.
4- Google Pinpoint Tool:
In 2020, Google launched Journalist Studio, a digital platform with built-in tools to help journalists do their jobs more efficiently and creatively.
The platform now includes 15 tools for journalists, some of which are freely available in the Arab world, where artificial intelligence is used to search large amounts of documents and PDF files (Pinpoint), to search for images, audio recordings and handwriting. Documents and email history. The tool leverages Google Search, AI, and machine learning to help journalists write and search for breaking news, investigative reports, and more.
The tool allows you to search and extract essential data from sets of up to 200,000 files of various types and sizes, share documents and collaborate with other journalists.
5- QuillBot:
QuillBot provides a suite of AI-powered text editing tools including: paraphrasing tools, proofreading tools, text summarizing tools, and plagiarism tools.
You can type the text in the proofreader and get the result instantly, or switch to the paraphrase editor to reformat the text. Styles adapt your edits to the style you want.
QuillBot is also available as an add-in that integrates with (Microsoft Word) or (Google Docs).
6- Synthesia.io platform:
The platform (Synthesia.io) uses artificial intelligence to create professional videos from text in minutes and supports up to 120 languages including Arabic and all its dialects, making it a great alternative to traditional video creation tools and complex process maps. time and cost.
The platform is easy to use. To create a professional video for your business, all you have to do is choose a template and an avatar that represents you, then type the text you want to convert to speech, add the media you want, and then hit the save button to generate the video.