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Searched years of case reporting with NotebookLM
What they did
French regional paper La Dépêche du Midi loaded its coverage of the Jubillar case (900 articles, 500 pages of confidential documents and over 1,000 internal notes) into NotebookLM to rebuild timelines and prepare for the trial.
How it went
Deputy editor-in-chief Christophe Rauzy estimates it 'saved his team two hours per day' on the case, and following up a detail from the files, a camper van's licence plate, led reporters to a witness and a new story.
Worth knowing
Vendor case study from the Google News Initiative (Google makes NotebookLM); the time saving is the editor's own estimate.
Try it yourself with Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Replace anything in [brackets] with your details.
I have uploaded [number] sources about [topic or case]: [articles, documents, notes].
Build a dated timeline of the key events, with the source for each entry.
List the people involved and what each source says about them, and flag any contradictions between sources.
Then list five questions I should still ask, based on gaps in these documents. Use only the uploaded sources and say when something is missing.Read the original
How La Dépêche du Midi learned to examine its own archives thanks to NotebookLM ↗
newsinitiative.withgoogle.com · · Vendor case study
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