Media: newsrooms, air, archives

Since 5 November 2024, franceinfo has been offering synchronised captioning from 6:30 a.m. to midnight on the france.tv platform: 12 hours of AI add to the 6:15 a.m. already captioned by operators.

At France Télévisions, journalists place their rushes in the Dalet platform, launch a transcription, then find a passage by typing a word: a saving of time to select the excerpts before handing them to the editors.

France Télévisions has developed MedIAGen, a company copilote that provides access in private spaces to several models (Mistral put forward, but also Gemini, OpenAI and Claude), so that the documents processed remain confidential.

After experiments in 2024, Radio France transcribes its programmes using Whisper, to make them accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people, with a human supervision and a correction form open to listeners.

Le Monde in English went from DeepL to ChatGPT to translate its articles, with a rereading by ten English-speaking journalists into CDI: according to the group's diversification director, this organization allowed the English component to be profitable in 2026.

Dailymotion (100 million videos) put Agent Search for media (Gemini) in production after an A/B test: +17% clicks after searching in the first week, use of search almost doubled in one year.

In East Republican (Ebra Group), journalists editorial secretaries have redrafted by ChatGPT nearly 700 articles of local correspondents, supervising each text: several minutes gain by papier, but names of cities are damaged and quotes sometimes changed.

At Radio France, Laurent Frisch tells us that in December 2024 France Bleu had transcribed and analyzed by the AI (including NotebookLM) 44 hours of local broadcasts that same morning, to draw the highlights before Michel Barnier's interview at 1 p.m.

In Media in the Seine 2025, Influencia indicates that France Culture uses the AI to extract the best moments of long content and decline them into short formats on networks.

Ouest-France automatically tracks or summarizes articles for journalists; David Dieudonné, IA project manager, said that he was moving from an experiment in 2024 to industrialization, while preserving editorial heritage, including through a joint laboratory with CNRS in Rennes.

France Télévisions has deployed Raiponse, an HR agent in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint: leave, documents, orientation to the right contact — the Witivio publisher displays +100 hours saved per month, 95% adoption and 30% fewer HR requests.

Audrey Guidez, HRD of the Information de France Télévisions, describes an internal HR chatbot, fed by the AI, accessible from the workstation for general first-level questions — an assistant next to the initiation reflexes.

Ornella Amsellem, DRH of Dailymotion (450 employees, 2 agreements), deployed AskHR, chatbot HR 24/7 on Dust: first-level administrative issues were divided by two, tickets dropped by 30% from the first month, usage increased from 10% to 80% in a few weeks.

Dailymotion has linked its infrastructure cost tracking tool to its agent platform: engineers and managers ask their cost questions in common language, without going through a specialist.

Benoît Georges, a journalist in charge of implanting AI in Echo, uses publishing tools to offer titles when "we can't find the ideal title": "The basics are always articles we have written. It's not the AI that will write them for us. »

Pascal Doucet-Bon, managing director of information at France Télévisions, said that in the "big investigations", the AI was used to analyze thousands of documents during the "Leaks": "We would have a lot of trouble doing without. The data remain in an internal sandbox.

Estelle Cognacq, then deputy director of franceinfo and director of the Radio France agency, said that journalists pass an audio file of interviews in Trint to obtain a transcription, then make summaries and exploit it — without automated production of articles.

Matthieu Beauval, director in charge of innovation at Radio France, quotes the analysis of mass documents: "some things a human being cannot really do because it would take days and weeks to analyze more than two million documents" — useful for investigation and verification.

Alix de Goldschmidt, innovation director of the M6 group, describes the automatic transcription (speech-to-text) in CMS as the most daily case: radio journalists go faster for podcast summaries, editorial content and editing. The help to derush also starts in Studio 89 for TV.

Estelle Cognacq describes Data Miner, used by franceinfo to detect information and events occurring on social networks (then Twitter) — explosion, fire — and alert the journalist, without doing the work in his place.

Estelle Cognacq describes State Check, a tool developed with Inria for the cell of true and false: it detects, in tweets of personalities, encrypted elements, then helps to get the answer from the Eurostat and Insee databases.

Goldschmidt's Alix states that C Productions was one of the group's first studios to use the generative AI to write the first jet of information content, then reworked by journalists as a pre-production preparation medium.

franceinfo has asked The tool is presented as a "tax coach", recalls the steps of the space impots.gouv.fr, and admits to being able to be wrong. The administration warns: never give him his tax number or address.

David Gewirtz, a journalist, recorded with "Record a skill" by "K0" Cowork the gesture of sorting 121 responses from experts (HARO / Qwoted) for an ongoing article comparing a task that usually takes him "an entire day", that is "between four and eight hours". After about an hour to create the skill, he launched it and came back 30 minutes later with a Google Docs document.