New Gen News Agency

IM News trains young writers, helps them get their work published in established publications, and helps them get recognised for it. AI does the training, the checking and the hand-holding.

TrainCreatePublishGet recognised

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How it works

Train. Create. Publish. Get recognised.

01
Train
Learn how news is reported and checked, with AI tutors and interactive sessions built on IM Lab's news literacy approach and the six questions: who, what, when, where, why and how.
02
Create
Write your own stories. AI guides you at every step: finding the idea, checking sources, writing the draft and editing it.
03
Publish
Stories that pass verification and editorial review are offered to publications through IM News, the way a news agency supplies stories to many outlets.
04
Get recognised
Your name on your published work, and a growing record of stories that you can show to colleges and employers.

AI at the core

AI does the heavy lifting.

Every IM News writer works with AI from the first lesson to the published story. These tools are being built now; the labels show where each one stands.

Training and hand-holding

In development

An AI coach that teaches reporting step by step and stays with each writer from the first idea to the final draft.

Fact verification

In development

AI checks names, dates, numbers, quotes and images against sources before a story moves forward, and shows the writer what it found.

Interactive AI sessions

In development

Practice sessions and real use cases, where writers work through stories and questions with the AI, at their own pace.

Mentoring

In development

Feedback on every draft: what is strong, what is missing and what to check again, so each story is better than the last.

One desk, many publications

Built like a news agency.

A news agency supplies stories to many newspapers, channels and websites at once. IM News will work the same way, with one difference: every writer is New Gen.

Publications that carry IM News stories will be named here once agreements are in place.

What we are building

An organised ecosystem for New Gen.

Training, with AI at every step
A desk to create and check stories
A route to publication
Recognition for every published writer

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