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The OpenAI Academy for News Organizations is a learning community for editorial, business, product, and technology teams. You’ll find practical trainings, case studies, and playbooks designed specifically for news media. By fostering shared learnings, the Academy helps teams explore how AI can be used in ways that align with their values and audiences.

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AI Essentials for Journalists is a practical introduction to the fundamentals of using ChatGPT. This training covers core capabilities like prompting, document analysis, research, data analysis, and creating a custom GPT. With demos purpose built for newsrooms, this session focuses on practical application through experimentation, responsible use, and building confidence with AI tools.

AI Essentials for Journalists

The Lenfest Institute shares key lessons from its first AI Fellows gathering – highlighting how local news organizations can thoughtfully approach AI adoption.

Lessons learned about building effective AI strategies

The American Journalism Project shares why establishing clear AI policies matter, the common challenges news organizations face, and steps for building transparent policies around AI usage.

Developing AI usage policies in your news organizations

This resource outlines how role design, onboarding, and organizational support can best set up candidates for success and enable effective collaboration across teams.

The Lenfest Institute: Recruiting and Onboarding AI Talent

The Lenfest Institute's guide shares insights from participants in its AI Collaborative & Fellowship program on how to develop AI policies grounded in transparency, ethics, and accountability.

How news organizations are creating AI policies

The Lenfest Institute GitHub hosts open-source tools and resources developed to support news organizations.

The Lenfest Institute: Github

Cityside and the News Revenue Hub analyzed years of giving messages to improve their fundraising appeals, alongside a playbook and prompt pack for newsrooms to adopt.

How to use AI to improve fundraising strategy

This advanced training is designed for more technical and product-focused teams. In this session, we’ll introduce how to bring your own data and systems into ChatGPT using tools like MCP servers, Connectors, and the Apps SDK. You’ll learn how these solutions enable deeper integration for both internal workflows and consumer experience. This webinar provides an introduction to MCP Servers to help you decide whether to support this capability.

MCP for Newsrooms & Apps SDK

Sahan Journal developed an open-source Audience Insights Assistant, to help newsrooms better understand audience interests. 

Sahan Journal: Audience Insights GPT - Github

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