Now available: Beginner’s guide to custom GPTs for local news publishers
Navigating the fast-paced world of local news can be a constant battle against tight deadlines and limited resources. But what if there was a way to boost your productivity and free up your team to focus on what matters most: impactful, community-based journalism?
That’s where custom GPTs come in, and the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University is excited to announce the public (and free) release of our comprehensive guide: Beginner’s guide: Custom GPTs for local news publishers.
Think of it as your AI-powered sidekick, trained on the nuances of your work and the specific needs of your newsroom. This guide equips you with the knowledge and tools to build a personalized AI assistant that can:
- Supercharge your productivity: Outline and breakdown transcripts or documents with confidence
- Free you to focus on the story: Spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on in-depth reporting and analysis
- Streamline your workflow: Generate article and video summaries, help with research, and create social media content in a fraction of the time
No prior experience with AI? No problem. This guide is designed to be accessible and user-friendly, taking you step-by-step through the process of building and implementing your own custom GPT.
This week, I hosted a free workshop on building custom GPTs for small and local newsrooms. Watch the recording of the workshop below:
The guide even includes bonus resources, like our guide to effective prompt engineering for small newsrooms, to ensure your AI assistant is tailored to your specific needs.
Here’s what our latest guide can do for your newsroom:
- Boost productivity and efficiency by automating repetitive tasks
- Repurpose your archives by drawing on custom knowledge files and documentation
- Free up your team to focus on in-depth reporting and impactful storytelling
- Give you a competitive edge in the evolving news landscape by leveraging the power of AI and automation
👉 Click here to access the full guide for FREE today.
Joe Amditis is assistant director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media. Contact him at amditisj@montclair.edu or on Twitter at @jsamditis.
About the Center for Cooperative Media: The Center is a primarily grant-funded program of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Its mission is to grow and strengthen local journalism and support an informed society in New Jersey and beyond. The Center is supported with funding from Montclair State University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Democracy Fund, the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium, the Independence Public Media Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more information, visit centerforcooperativemedia.org.
