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Dragoncatcher: WSJPT

The Wall Street Journal used an internal AI tool called WSJPT, a play on ChatGPT, to summarize every page of documents scraped from a county portal during a breaking news investigation, according to a Nieman Lab report. The tool standardizes basic LLM requests for summarization, classification, and image description across reporting projects, helping reporters find the needle in a haystack on tight deadlines.

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Dragoncatcher: WSJPT
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[WSJPT](/lab/wsjpt/)

Honestly … [I love it](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-record-breaking-eight-pulitzer-awardees-disclosed-ai-use-this-year?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me):

[Wall Street Journal reporters] are trained to find the needle in a haystack, but doing so on a breaking news timeline can be challenging. To speed up the document review, the reporters leaned on a pre-built internal tool called WSJPT (a play on ChatGPT). The tool standardizes basic LLM requests across reporting projects, including prompts for summarization, classification, and image description. In this case, the reporters used the tool to summarize every page of every document scraped from the county portal.

“WSJPT” is indeed very cute!

The leverage these tools provide —

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