YEP News, launched today, is a groundbreaking multi-lingual news website that delivers trusted news from European public service media, including ERR News. Its aim is to curate insightful journalism and guide audiences through what has become a fragmented media landscape.

YEP (Your European Perspective) News builds on the success of A European Perspective, a pan-European networked newsroom that collects nearly 3,000 stories daily. YEP News features a selection of these stories, helping them to find a wider audience. It further translates them into five major European languages: English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. It harnesses the power of AI, used alongside human oversight, to curate stories that appear on YEP News. The huge recent leaps in the accuracy and speed of AI translation mean that the new portal can bring large quantities of stories to new audiences in their language of choice.

"YEP News helps us see the world — and our shared challenges — through a fresh lens. Often, solutions lie just across the border. By breaking down borders and language barriers, YEP News serves as a hub for reliable information, powered by cutting-edge technology," said Wouter Gekiere, AISBL EBU-UER managing director.

Liz Corbin, EBU's director of news, said that "public service media organizations are 100 percent focused on making sure the news you need to know reaches as many people as possible. YEP News sits at the cutting edge of this — bringing journalism and technology together to help audiences use and benefit from AI-driven tools in a safe environment. By uniting trusted news sources, YEP News is responding to the public's demand to have easy access to different perspectives and to get maximum value from the media organizations they help fund. In a complex media ecosystem, YEP News just made getting the real story a little bit easier."  

Currently, eleven public service media and organizations contribute to YEP News, with more set to join. The platform builds on the successful AEP Digital News Platform, launched in 2021 and co-funded by the European Union.

Learn more by visiting YEP News and reading about the A European Perspective.

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