NewsSearch: hours of research, now done in seconds.
Mediahuis publishes more than 30 independent news brands across five countries. Together we built NewsSearch, a research assistant that turns the group's vast archive into something journalists can actually talk to. It's not a search box. It finds the story, checks it against Mediahuis' own reporting, summarises it, and pitches fresh angles back to the newsroom.
Instant retrieval
Searches millions of archived articles and returns what matters in seconds, not half an hour.
Verification, not guesswork
Grounds every answer in Mediahuis' own journalism, so facts can be trusted.
On-the-spot summaries
Condenses long threads of coverage into a crisp briefing.
Biographies and timelines
Assembles the background scaffolding of a story automatically, a gift to less experienced reporters.
Open-ended by design
Handles questions well outside the initial scope; as one lead put it, the limit is the journalist's imagination.
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The time it takes to find information has been drastically reduced: what sometimes took hours is now done in seconds or minutes. Freed from tedious, time-consuming investigation, our journalists can devote more time to value-added work.
When you combine a powerful language model like Gemini with a lot of content and the creativity of journalists, the only limit is the imagination of the journalist. Journalists now interact with the archive in a completely different way; an assistant does the heavy lifting, and the information can be trusted because it's based on their own articles.
We're building Mediahuis on a central technology platform with AI woven through it, so our newsrooms can move faster without ever compromising the independent journalism people trust. NewsSearch is that idea made real: technology in service of the story.
