AI for newsrooms
AI for newsrooms: training and workflow automation for editorial teams.
Built with the newsrooms of The Times of India Group. Faster copy desks, translation and headlines, with a journalist signing off on every word.
In use at The Times of India Group
One platform, every desk.
These run today on the group's private AI platform.
The Times of India · Editorial
Copy desk
Edits filed copy to house style and length.
Maharashtra Times
Marathi desk
Translates English news into Marathi.
Vijay Karnataka
Design studio
Images and illustrations for articles.
The Hand-Off Grid, for editorial
AI handles the craft around the story. Journalists own the story.
Every task is sorted by how much is at stake and how easily you can check the output.
Hand it over
Typos, a better word
Low stakes, easy to check
Draft & verify
Translation for publication
High stakes, easy to check
Ideas only
Headline angles
Low stakes, hard to check
AI critiques, you author
The story and its facts
High stakes, hard to check
A brief that works
Ask for exactly the change you want.
Ask AI to "improve" a headline and you get a new angle. Ask for one word and you get one word.
Example from the newsroom session
Give 10 shorter alternatives for the word discharged in this headline. Don't change anything else. Return only the 10 words.
How it works
Train the team. Give it a private platform. Automate what repeats.
Training
Sessions for reporters, desk editors and language desks on their own work: headlines, copy, translation. Measured before and after.
About training →Platform
A private AI workspace where unpublished and embargoed copy stays inside the newsroom.
About the platform →Automation
Our engineers build desk-specific agents, like the copy desk, and hand them over.
About Digital Transformation →“One early decision made that possible: keep the context with us. … Our colleagues now build with AI: their own automations, skills and team templates.”Yudhvir Mor · CPTO, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (The Times of India)
Rules we teach newsrooms
- A journalist signs off on everything before it publishes
- Read the last line. One paper printed the chatbot's own offer to rewrite the story
- Label AI-made images and synthetic content
- No embargoed or source-protected material in tools you don't control
Questions
What editors ask.
How do newsrooms use generative AI?
For the work around the story, not the story itself: editing filed copy to house style and length, headline options, translation between languages, catching typos and finding a better word, and images for articles. A journalist should sign off on everything before it publishes.
What does AI training for journalists cover?
How to brief AI precisely ("change only this word"), how to spot when it makes things up or flattens your voice, when to use it and when not to, and the rules for disclosure, copyright and synthetic images. Everyone leaves with a working assistant for their own desk.
Is our unpublished copy safe?
On a private platform, yes. Embargoed, source-protected or unpublished material should never go into a personal chatbot. Our platform runs on your cloud and is never used to train anyone's model.
Do you work with regional language newsrooms?
Yes. The Times of India Group's Maharashtra Times desk uses the platform to translate English news into Marathi. We teach desks to have a native-language editor check every translation before it publishes.
Start with one desk.
Bring the desk with the most repetitive work. We'll show you what AI can take off it, and what stays with your journalists.
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