Make the newspaper archive searchable for readers by question

Publishers make their archive searchable for readers by asking questions

Needs setupAI Act: no extra obligationsMaking knowledge available on requestJournalism & publishing

Fits: IT & software development · Creative & media production

Readers ask a question and get a short answer from your articles, with links and dates. The archive becomes a reason to take out a subscription, and the newsroom sees which questions are still open.

Is this for you?

  • You have a large digital archive that is hardly used today.
  • The rights to your texts for this kind of use are clarified or can be clarified, including for freelancers.
  • Corrections, counter-statements and withdrawn articles are traceably marked in the archive.
First step today

Take five to eight of your own articles on a topic that has changed over time, for example a construction project in your town, and use the template below to ask reader questions about it. Pay attention to whether the answer gives the latest status and takes corrections into account.

How to go about it

  1. Define archive holdings and rights
  2. Clean up the archive and add corrections
  3. Connect the search assistant to the archive
  4. Test with real reader questions
  5. Make it available to readers
  6. Analyse unanswered questions

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JV-03 · Legal status 08.10.2026