Automating Journalism: Make News Channel with AI News Anchor

Welcome to Automate Journalism: Make News Channel with AI News Anchor course. This is a project based course where you will learn step by step on how to build a news channel and to create news videos with fully animated and super realistic AI powered news anchors. This course will give you a whole new perspective about how artificial intelligence is more than capable of revolutionising journalism. In addition, you will also be amazed by how far AI can automate news videos creation by speeding up the editing process as well as replacing human news anchors with a hyper realistic artificial intelligence powered news anchor as the substitution which can be very useful for independent journalist who want to keep their identity secret due to privacy or safety reasons. In the introduction session, you will learn several aspects where AI can be utilised to create news videos, such as converting news scripts to audio and producing animated news anchors to present the news. Then, you will continue by getting to know several news sources like Google News, AP News, and Reuters as well as learning how to check the potential bias and reliability of the news. This part is very crucial to make sure the news you are planning to cover are actually factual. Afterward, you will get to know several news topic ideas that you should consider and it is really recommended for you just to pick one and concentrate on that one topic. Once you have chosen your news topic, we will enter the main part of the course where you will be guided step by step on how to create and edit news video from scratch using AI tools like HeyGen, HourOne, and Paradiso AI. Those tools will enable you to convert text to audio as well as to integrate the audio with the fully animated news anchors. Once the video has been created and ready to be uploaded, we will go over comprehensive analysis on which social media platform that you should be uploading to. In that section, we will be mainly focusing on Youtube and Tiktok since those two platforms have the most audience and also the best options for video based contents. Last but not least, at the end of the course, you will learn several different ways to monetise your news channel and how to potentially turn this side hustle into a sustainable media business.

First of all, before getting into the course, we need to ask this question to ourselves: why should we build a news channel? Well, if you were asking this question five or ten years ago, at that time, there had not been a lot of independent journalist yet and most of journalists work for media companies, nonetheless, the situation is totally different nowadays, as the rise of independent journalism in the past few years, more and more news channels are created on social media platforms like Youtube and Tiktok. Therefore, anybody can be an independent journalist nowadays and it is very possible to combine it with content creation. The advancement of artificial intelligence technologies in the past couple years also contributed very significantly where today you can even create news channels and upload videos where you are reporting news without showing your face since you can replace it with AI powered news anchors.

Below are things that you can expect to learn from the course:

• Learn how to automate news videos creation process using AI
• Learn how to analyse and check if the news is unbiased, neutral, accurate, and factual
• Learn how to convert news articles from Google News, AP News, and Reuters into news scripts using ChatGPT
• Learn how to customise AI powered news anchors avatars
• Learn how to create a hyper realistic news videos with AI powered news anchor using HeyGen
• Learn how to create a hyper realistic news videos with AI powered news anchor using HourOne
• Learn how to create a hyper realistic news videos with AI powered news anchor using Paradiso AI
• Learn how to create breaking news intro using Canva
• Learn how to add subtitles automatically and edit news videos using Veed IO
• Full comprehensive analysis on which social media platform is the best to host your content videos: comparing Yotube vs Tiktok
• Learn several different strategies to monetise news videos and how to potentially turn this side hustle into a news channel business