From Inc. Magazine, January 15:
This AI Startup Just Landed a Deal That Could Transform Newsrooms
Exclusive: An AI-based journalism platform aims to do it all. Can it deliver the accuracy and productivity it promises?
A major media conglomerate is betting that artificial intelligence can help its journalists work more efficiently, and is turning to a little-known startup for the tools.
Symbolic.ai, a startup that provides newsrooms and communications professionals with an all-in-one AI platform, has announced a major new partnership with News Corp, the Rupert Murdoch-founded conglomerate behind Dow Jones (which includes The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and Dow Jones Newswires) as well as major titles in the UK and Australia. As part of the partnership, every newsroom under the News Corp umbrella will have the option to use the platform.
The company was founded in 2024 by Devin Wenig, who ran Thomson Reuters Markets in the late 2000s and was the CEO of eBay for most of the 2010s, along with Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes. During his time at Reuters, Wenig became intimately familiar with what he calls “pure journalism,” referring to the act of interviewing people and developing a thesis for an article. But he noticed over time that ancillary activity (like posting on social media and reformatting stories) were taking up more and more of reporters’ time....
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