AI Journalist

AI-powered article generator in Italian.

Features

• Article generation from press releases using AI
• HTML formatting for web publishing
• Modular, extensible codebase

Quickstart

1. Clone the repo
2. Install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Set your OpenAI API key as an environment variable.
4. Run the demo in tester.py
5. In tester.py, change the "topic" value and the "article_type" parameter ('editoriale', 'cronaca', 'intervista') to see different outputs.

Technical Details

• Project modularization.
• Asynchronous calls to OpenAI API for efficiency
• Use different models according to the task:
  • GPT-4.1 for articles as it can handle higher token limits.
  • GPT-4o-mini for date extraction due to its cost-effectiveness.
• Use of Jinja2 for dynamic prompt engineering.
• Use of Pydantic for structured data handling.
• Attention to detail: handling of dates and deictics, and interruptions in interviews.
• HTML formatting for easy web integration.

Potential Improvements

• Use of RAG or tool use (via MCP) to fetch relevant news articles for context. Editorial and Interview genres would particularly benefit by setting a vector knowledgebase.
• Hosting an API for make the service accessible.
• Handle several languages or add translation microservice.
• Handle more article genres.
• Add file import for input the article sources.