With thousands of trusted global publishers on board, AskNews unlocks new pathways for AI-ready news data that protects publisher rights, improves LLM performance, and empowers intelligence workflows.
DENVER, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, AskNews announced formal licensing agreements with The Associated Press (AP), Agence France-Presse (AFP), Newstex, and more than 1,000 publishers worldwide. Together, these partnerships create a new standard for how trusted journalism flows into the rapidly growing markets for AI, forecasting, financial analysis, and intelligence.
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming real-time information analysis across industries, but AskNews CEO, Robert Caulk, notes that the LLMs' reliability hinges on access to clean, structured information. He said that traditionally scraped content is inconsistent, legally risky, and often stripped of critical nuance. AskNews addresses this problem through extensive research on context engineering—a process that transforms news articles into synthetic, structured data optimized for machines while preserving publisher rights and safeguarding editorial integrity.
Unlike traditional summaries, AskNews' synthetic news index contains all the core facts from the original text, but is also enriched with contextual metadata, such as bias classification, geographical locations, sentiment analysis, source origin and more. In other words, the AskNews product is "LLM-ready"; it paints the exact contextual picture needed for an LLM to do high-stakes reasoning for businesses.
"At a moment when publishers face growing threats from unauthorized scraping and model training, AskNews offers a fair, forward-looking alternative," Caulk said. "We're proving that trusted journalism can power the AI economy without compromising control or integrity."
Notably, the AskNews Publisher platform gives media organizations a new monetization channel in the emerging AI economy. Through a pay-per-surface royalty model, publishers receive 50% of platform revenue whenever their content surfaces in AskNews systems. With transparent usage analytics, guaranteed attribution and effortless onboarding, AskNews ensures that publishers maintain control while benefiting financially from the value their reporting creates.
Early partners are already recognizing the benefits of this approach. "AskNews helps us reach new audiences in AI, analytics, and research—without ever compromising control, attribution or integrity," said Basil Maudave, Head of Strategic Partnerships at AFP.
Michael Ellis, President of Newstex, added, "High-quality journalism deserves high-integrity distribution. AskNews offers a forward-looking approach that gives our publishers new opportunities in the AI space without compromising their rights or voice."
As the global news ecosystem adapts to the AI era, AskNews provides a blueprint for responsible, transparent and mutually beneficial partnerships between publishers and technology platforms. By combining context-rich data, respect for intellectual property, and a fair revenue-sharing model, AskNews demonstrates that journalism and AI can grow together—ethically, profitably and at scale.
For more details, read the full blog post on how AskNews is building the bridge between journalism and the AI information ecosystem.
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