The Washington Post joins as a member of the CAI

By Santiago Lyon, CAI Head of Education & Advocacy

As the CAI community grows, now with over 250 members, we’re delighted to welcome the venerable Washington Post to the group.  

The Post is a noted journalism powerhouse that produces award-winning investigations that hold the powerful to account, long-form narratives that illuminate the stories and experiences of people around the world, and high-impact multimedia projects that push the boundaries of audio and visual storytelling today.  

It’s also a place of tremendous investment, growing its newsroom to more than 1,000, adding first-of-its-kind teams like one focused on visual forensics, and bringing together engineers and journalists to ensure a superior experience across platforms for readers.  

As a result, The Post’s audience continues to grow with nearly 88 million unique visitors in March of this year, a testament to its reach and breadth of coverage. 

This large audience makes The Post an important addition to the CAI’s work around content authenticity and provenance (alongside The New York Times and the Gannett newspaper chain of 260 daily newspapers in the United States). 

With a hyper-modern newsroom and an expanding international footprint, The Post will be a valuable partner in prototyping CAI technology and eventually implementing it to help readers better understand the provenance of images and video, further buttressing The Post’s already sterling reputation for first class, award-winning journalism.  

As we further our technical work internally, we’ll be looking to collaborate on more real-world use case prototypes. This will be crucial in our mission to help give consumers more transparency around image veracity. If you’re interested in partnering on prototypes, reach out to our team here.