Over the past year, we set out to support a healthy news ecosystem by working with news organizations, listening to their feedback, and building solutions together. Our goal(opens in a new window) is to be a thoughtful partner—helping journalists with time-consuming tasks, improving ChatGPT’s understanding of sources of current news events, and offering new ways for publishers to reach readers through ChatGPT. We’re a young company putting significant investment into this work, which advances our mission by finding novel ways for news and tech to work together and benefit each other as well as our users.
Today, we are announcing a new content partnership with Axios, and funding to help expand its local news coverage by building newsrooms enabled by our technology in four new cities—Pittsburgh, Pa.; Kansas City, Mo.; Boulder, Colo.; and Huntsville, Ala.
> “We launched Axios Local nearly four years ago with the bold goal of bringing local news to communities across the country. OpenAI’s investment allows us to continue our expansion and aid us in bringing essential local news to deserving audiences.”
Jim VandeHei, Axios co-founder and CEO
We’ve now partnered with nearly 20 media organizations*, bringing our technology to more than 160 news outlets and hundreds of content brands in more than 20 languages across topics and continents.
The partnerships with publishers like News Corp, The Atlantic, Vox Media, Prisa Media, Condé Nast, Hearst, and Dotdash Meredith enable ChatGPT search to now feature select summaries and excerpts from trusted media outlets with clear citations and direct links to original sources. This helps to strengthen both the news ecosystem and our product, and makes it easier for our over 300 million weekly active users across over 150 countries(opens in a new window) to discover and engage with original news content, including from any publication that chooses to participate in our search ecosystem.
“Technology is one of the best tools we have to reach new readers and deepen our relationship with existing ones. By working with OpenAI, we’re figuring out ways to make discovering and sharing our journalism more intuitive. We want to use the tools of the future to help people discover our best reporting on the moment we’re in,” said Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic.
“Provenance and principle are culture cornerstones, which is why the partnership with Sam Altman and his trusty team has been profoundly important, not only for our thousands of journalists around the world, but for insight, for integrity and for actual intelligence. We live in an age permeated, poisoned by the faux and the fallacious, so OpenAI’s clear commitment to objective journalism, to genuinely trustworthy sources is crucial in ensuring that succeeding generations will have an understanding founded in fact,” said Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp.
## Enhancing newsrooms, business operations and user experiences
In the next phase of our work, including our latest partnership with Axios, we’re focusing on helping publishers more effectively integrate our tools to benefit their missions and their businesses.
Publishers are sparking new innovation in the AI era, and they are only getting started.
## Grants to support AI innovation in newsrooms and operations
Starting in 2023, we doubled down on efforts to ensure news organizations of all sizes and resources can leverage AI effectively. Our partnerships with the American Journalism Project, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism(opens in a new window) and the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)(opens in a new window), help support both local and global newsrooms through grant programs, API credits, AI education, and AI integration support.
## American Journalism Project
OpenAI funded the launch of the American Journalism Project’s Product & AI Studio(opens in a new window) to support experimentation with AI across their portfolio of 50 local news organizations in 35 states. The Studio has provided direct funding to local news outlets—including Open Campus, Spotlight PA, and Centro de Periodismo Investigativo—as they explore and utilize AI to transcribe and analyze civic meeting notes, translate articles while preserving cultural nuances, equip readers with fast and accurate information to election information, and streamline workflows in resource-constrained newsrooms.
“Local journalism must find ways to thrive in the digital age. Emerging technologies like generative AI bring both opportunities and risks to the field. The American Journalism Project’s Product & AI Studio is focused on helping the outstanding news outlets in our portfolio explore how AI might address tough problems, such as boosting revenue and analyzing civic data, while emphasizing scalable knowledge sharing. Our goal is to make sure these efforts strengthen trusted local news, an essential part of creating informed and connected communities,” said Sarabeth Berman, CEO of American Journalism Project.
## Lenfest Institute for Journalism Fellowships
Through OpenAI-sponsored fellowships at member organizations like the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Public Media, Long Island Newsday, and The Seattle Times, news organizations gain access to OpenAI expertise and API credits to experiment with innovative applications of AI. These fellows are driving projects that reimagine newsroom operations and audience engagement.
“Just over a year ago, OpenAI and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism challenged ourselves to create a new development platform for major metropolitan news organizations to work together to leverage the opportunity for AI to improve the business of local news,” said Jim Friedlich, CEO of The Lenfest Institute. “This program—including embedded engineering support in key cities, and the sharing of insights, code, and learning industrywide—is a key step in leveraging emerging AI technologies to strengthen trusted local news and ensure that its critical role in serving communities endures.”
## WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom AI Catalyst Program
In partnership with WAN-IFRA, OpenAI is set to support 128 newsrooms across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and South Asia. The current cohort includes over 30 newsrooms such as Norway’s Adresseavisen—one of the country’s oldest newspapers, established in 1767—and Cambodia’s Koh Santepheap Media Group, publisher of a daily Khmer-language newspaper. The program provides hands-on education about AI implementation and culminates in participants creating AI prototypes tailored to their needs. Early cohorts in Europe and APAC are already exploring how AI can enhance newsroom productivity and storytelling.
“The Newsroom AI Catalyst is a fantastic opportunity for experimentation and testing and a chance to discover and benchmark frameworks and practices through sharing insights with other participants that can radically change how AI is integrated into newsrooms,” said Vincent Peyrègne, CEO of WAN-IFRA.
We are excited to continue working closely with publishers, editors, journalists, and the news industry to explore how media organizations can best leverage AI to inform and engage with their audiences while we deliver their trusted, timely journalism to ChatGPT users.
*Our news publisher partners:
The Associated Press(opens in a new window), Axel Springer, Axios(opens in a new window), Condé Nast, Dotdash Meredith(opens in a new window), Financial Times, Future, GEDI, HearstLe Monde, News Corp, Prisa Media, Reuters, The Atlantic, TIME, Vox Media
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