The AI Journalism Lab will provide students with a hands-on opportunity to devise new AI tools to help reporters and editors produce the news. This will be a lab, not a lecture class or a discussion. You will start by meeting with local media organizations to identify their needs and then use commercially available AI products to solve their problems ethically and responsibly. You do not need experience in journalism or computer science. We’ll team you up with other students to account for your strengths and needs. Our goal is products, not papers. Some will take longer. Some will fail. Your products can fail and you will still succeed in the class. What matters is effort and what we all learn. By the end of the semester, we’ll build some cool tools, help journalism, break a few things and have some fun.