At the end of May 2024, we attended the World News Media Congress in Copenhagen, which had been organized by WAN-IFRA. The main topic of the conference was generative AI and large language models. The discussions focused on the application of AI for editorial work and the use of media house content by technology companies…
Category: Solutions for media
WAN-IFRA’s Data Science Day
We recently participated in WAN-IFRA’s Data Science Day and exchanged experiences about AI and LLMs with professionals from the news industry! Even though we use AI and large language models in our customer projects on a daily basis, we can’t test all the rapidly emerging AI technologies and LLM developments. Fortunately, events like last week’s…
Geneea on WIZONE
Geneea is now on WIZONE, the marketplace for the media industry! Are you a publisher looking for innovative ways to elevate your media projects? Then WIZONE by WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, is the place to be. Geneea is now part of WIZONE’s extensive selection of innovative technology partners, and our…
IPTC Media Topics
The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) calls itself the global standards body for news media. In this article we focus on one of its standards: Media Topics. This standard contains a subject taxonomy for media, which is a topic hierarchy that can be used to classify news articles. *Example of a subset of Media Topics…
New version of Frida
Winter hibernation is coming to an end and we’re ready to tell you what’s cooking in our NLP kitchen: a new, slick version of Frida – a web application that provides comprehensive visualization of document and article analysis. We’ve incorporated valuable feedback from our clients, gathered over the years. We’ve improved UX, increased customizability, and…
News Impact Summit 2022
Geneea and the Czech News Agency discussed their experiences of using automatic text generation in election coverage at this year’s News Impact Summit: The Future of Editorial. The event took place in Prague on October 6, 2022 and was organized by the European Journalism Centre and the Google News Initiative to celebrate innovation in journalism…
Covering elections 2022
Recently, and for the third time in a row, Geneea collaborated with Czech News Agency (CTK) in covering elections in the Czech Republic. On this occasion it was the 2022 local and senate elections. Our NLG automatically generated over 500 reports announcing preliminary and then final election results as they came in. This was done…
Václav Moravec on media, AI, and Geneea
Václav Moravec is a popular Czech columnist and TV host. As a guest of the podcast Welcome the Future, he discusses problems with contemporary journalism, how it must change, and its future. To illustrate what AI has to offer to media publishers, he mentions the long-term cooperation between Geneea and the Czech News Agency on…
MediaTech Festival
As one of 5 selected startups, we pitched our solution on the main stage of the MediaTech Festival. It was a live pitch event hosted by Future Media Hubs. Thanks for this amazing opportunity!
Geneea is part of STADIEM’s second Open Call for media innovators
We are thrilled to be part of STADIEM’s (Startup Driven Innovation in European Media) 2nd Open Call for media innovators. Open Call 1 was a fantastic experience for us, and we can’t wait to see what Open Call 2 will bring. After being selected out of 170 #startups, we are going on to the Match…
The importance of tags in online news media
This article presents an overview of what tags are in the context of news media, how they can benefit readers and publishers, and why using Geneea NLP for tagging might be a good idea.
Geo-documenting with Radio France
Radio France wants to ensure it covers the whole country equally. We searched for locations mentioned in its audio recordings, created nice overview maps, etc. Watch Iniz Becker explain how geo-documentation works, or read Radio France’s article describing the results of our cooperation.
Robotic journalism
What is robotic journalism? Will journalists be replaced by robots and AI 🤖? How does media automation work? To what extent is Czech more complicated for AI and NLP than, for example, English? Petr Hamerník and Jiří Hana, co-founders of Geneea, tell you about natural language processing in a broadcast Zátiší with Ales Vojir on Radio 1 –…
Generating election reports
The Czech News Agency used our automatic report generator again to cover the 2021 national elections. The result was dozens of reports created in a matter of minutes, some of which could be seen in the live broadcast at the ČT24 news channel. Read more…
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Hackathon
The RFE/RL Prague Hackathon brought together journalists, coders, and designers to innovate and build digital prototypes in support of media freedom. Geneea attended the event as a mentor to the hackers. Read more…