Deccan Herald has begun using an AI-driven infographic tool inside its content management system to turn finished stories into visual summaries with a single click, in a move designed to meet both shrinking reader attention spans and the newsroom’s own time pressures. According to WAN-IFRA, the project grew out of the 2025 Newsroom AI Catalyst, a three-month accelerator run with OpenAI that has backed newsrooms across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and South Asia in building AI tools for journalism.

The newspaper, founded in 1948 and published by The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited, serves English- and Kannada-language audiences through Deccan Herald and Prajavani, with coverage ranging from politics and business to civic affairs and culture. Suhas Bhandari, the publication’s product manager, told WAN-IFRA that the idea was prompted by a simple problem: readers often want quick takeaways, while editorial teams do not always have the capacity to package every article into extra formats after publication.

The resulting system, described internally as the CMS Infographic Creator, lets editors finish an article, click a button in the CMS extension and generate a structured visual summary based on pre-built templates. WAN-IFRA reported that the workflow has cut what was roughly a 10-minute manual task down to about a minute of review and editing. Bhandari said the team moved away from asking the model to build complete HTML, after finding that template-based output was cheaper, more reliable and easier to control.

The tool is still being rolled out cautiously, with Deccan Herald saying only about 5% of articles currently carry the infographic treatment. Even so, the newsroom is already using the same underlying workflow for social media carousels, visual stories and listicles. Bhandari said explainer pieces appear to be the best fit, while other formats such as timelines, comparisons and how-to articles can be adapted depending on the story.

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