For journalists, the most time-consuming part of writing an article is finding information. Gathering context, looking up numbers, and verifying facts can take hours—pulling them away from in-depth analysis, interviews, and uncovering new stories. As a result, newsrooms may spend hundreds—if not thousands—of hours every month on these tasks. With the rise of AI, many…
Category: Solutions for media
Creating a Great RAG for Media: Geneea Moderated a Roundtable at Data Science Day
This year’s Data Science Day, an international conference organized by WAN-IFRA, was hosted by the prestigious German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. The event brought together data professionals from digital news, including analysts, scientists, engineers, and chief data officers, to share insights and experiences. One of the thematic roundtables focused on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems,…
AI and Journalism in 2025: Promising Prospects and Necessary Partnerships
The Reuters Institute at Oxford University has released its annual predictions on the future of journalism, particularly in the digital world, for the next 12 months. What key trends in media and AI are highlighted by the research? The report, Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025, published annually since 2012, surveyed the opinions…
Geneea at WAN IFRA AI Forum
This week, our co-founder Petr Hamerník attended WAN IFRA’s AI Forum in Paris. This conference connects the biggest innovators in AI and journalism, and we are honored to be part of this inspiring community. So, what are the key insights for implementing AI into journalistic processes in 2024? 1) Generative AI is here to stay—it…
CUE Days 2024 in Berlin
In mid-November, we attended CUE Days, hosted by Stibo DX—a unique conference focused on the future of media and customer journeys with CUE products. We participated in insightful sessions on the transforming news media landscape and the upcoming innovations Stibo DX is bringing to the table. Jirka Hana and Jesper Weltz shared insights from our…
World News Media Congress 2024
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…
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…