Utilizing AI in Journalism, A Workshop – New York Financial Writers Association

Apr 3 2025

Jonathan Soma, js4571@columbia.edu

Slides

All of the slides

Stories

• We Asked an AI to Map Our Stories Across NYC
• Divergent creativity test
• Arizona police procedures exposed in massive policy database hack, and the leak itself
• Washington Post random chat apps investigation
• Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize

Links

• Practical AI for investigative journalism, my YouTube series from last year
• Claude for Sheets extension, along with the description from Anthropic and my sample sheet you can play with. Get your API key here
• Semantic Reactor
• Google Pinpoint
• MacWhisper, along with the super-technical original Whisper
• HuggingFace tasks to know what’s possible with AI, and JournalistsonHF, an AI+Journalism community