Martyn is Newsweek’s suite of AI toolset capabilities that assist our newsroom in producing high-quality journalism. Martyn’s capabilities are constantly evolving as we responsibly expand and refine how AI supports reporting, editing, and production.
Martyn is named in honour of Newsweek’s founder, Thomas JC Martyn—a pioneer in journalism whose vision helped shape the modern news magazine. By naming our AI suite after him, we aim to continue his legacy of innovation, using cutting-edge technology to uphold the standards and spirit of journalistic excellence that he established.
AI is not accountable to Newsweek readers—our newsroom is. Every Martyn-assisted workflow is overseen by journalists, and all published work must meet Newsweek’s editorial standards. For full details on our policies—including standards and guardrails around AI use—please see our Policies and Standards page.
What Martyn can do today
- Research, Discovery, Ideation & Planning
- Real-time monitoring and alerting for news and current affairs.
- Accelerate background research, document analysis, source verification, story optimisation, and follow-on coverage.
- Topic briefings and rapid canvassing of open-web reporting.
- Highlight emerging topics, outline and structure reporting plans.
- Extract figures from filings and datasets, create charts/tables, and generate infographics.
- Drafting & Editing Assistance
- Generate foundational story drafts from editorial assignment notes and prompts.
- Proofreading, plagiarism checks, and tone/style consistency.
- Clarity edits, style suggestions, summarisation, translation/localisation, and adaptation for different platforms.
- Cross-reference claims, flag contradictions, assemble source lists, and checklists for verification.
- Transcription of meetings and interviews, speaker identification, and playback/edit/search transcripts.
- A/B test headline variants, refine decks and social copy, generate alt text and metadata, insert internal links and related content.
- Multimedia Production Assistance
- AI video / audio generation and editing, including script and production drafting, repackaging, captioning, voiceovers, dubbing, alt text, subtitles, translations, and mobile formatting.
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