AI Disruptor

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Turn any source into professional news reports

Turn any source into professional news reports

News reports are just systematic information processing

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Alex McFarland
Aug 27, 2025
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I’ve been using AI to write news-style content for a long time. One of my first jobs in this industry was covering news stories for various publications. It was the first time I began experimenting with AI writing systems.

Professional news writing follows a specific structure. There's a reason journalists write the way they do - it works. And when you teach AI that structure? You get content that can be published in the best publications.

Today’s prompt will help you write professional news reports with ChatGPT or Claude.

It forces AI to analyze sources properly, develop real angles, and follow actual journalistic standards.

I turned Claude into a journalist

This prompt makes AI think through the entire editorial process.

First, it analyzes all your source material and identifies what actually matters. Then it develops multiple headline options and explains why each one works. Finally, it structures everything using real journalistic standards - inverted pyramid, proper attribution, balanced perspectives.

It's basically an entire newsroom workflow compressed into one prompt.

Now, here’s the prompt you can use to write news reports:

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