Part I · AI Solutions in Practice

A casebook of newsroom AI — what was built, what worked, what didn’t.

Six newsrooms in Latin America and East Africa on the prototypes they shipped, the ones that quietly stopped running, and the governance they wrote around them.

Read the cases Part II — Governance synthesis

Visual content production & design-team bottlenecks

Featured caseArgentina

Revista Anfibia: A Slack chatbot for routine visual content

Automating the flyer queue — while keeping AI out of article imagery, after a map-error scar the year before.

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Routine content automation from structured sources

Featured caseUruguay

La Diaria: Núbel, a weather-alert article generator

A two-week sprint that halved a daily chore — and quietly stopped running when its owner moved desks.

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Archive search & institutional memory

Featured caseUruguay

La Diaria: The archive tool that failed, and what it teaches about buying

Six months, an outside consultant, and a RAG agent that lost to Google search — a governance failure more than a technical one.

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Verification & fact-checking

Featured caseKenya

Lake Region Bulletin: A fact-checking agent built by non-technical editors

"Coding using words" — a custom ChatGPT agent trained on the newsroom's own debunks, with two editors as the gate.

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CapsuleKenya

Radio Domus: DigiKundi — fact-checking inside community WhatsApp groups

A community-intermediary model: train the WhatsApp admins themselves and build a public archive of checks.

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Staff productivity & newsroom assistants

Featured caseTanzania

Orkonerei FM: OrkoBot, a co-pilot for a six-person station

No-code custom ChatGPT agent, fed the station's mission and workflows — six users on two shared accounts.

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CapsuleArgentina

Chequeado: A Phase 1 assistant that failed as a tool and paid off as culture

The product wasn't at the level needed — but the two editorial builders came away fluent in prompting.

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