AI Research Assistant for Journalists
For hourly-deadline journalists: Ryna AI handles background research, interview prep, transcript cleanup, article editing.
Ryna AI Editorial Team · Updated 14.04.2026
The most visible part of a story is the writing — but a journalist's hours mostly go elsewhere. Cleaning up the raw transcript of a one-hour interview by hand often takes three to four hours, scanning a 40-page report for the actual news can eat half a day, and as the deadline closes in, the question 'what's my angle here?' can be more exhausting than the writing itself. Newsroom workload studies keep showing the same thing: writing is a small slice of the day, while research, transcription and verification consume most of it.
Ryna AI is built to speed up exactly this 'pre-writing' work. Before you head into an interview, brief it on the person and the topic and it drafts a set of sharp, open-ended questions with follow-ups. Paste in a raw transcript and it strips the repetition, filler and off-topic tangents down to clean, quotable blocks. Ask for ten headlines on one story, six angles on one event, or a five-point summary of a long report. Ryna isn't a magic wand; it works like a good intern — it asks for context, produces a fast draft, and gets sharper as you steer it.
Treat every output as a draft, because journalism's first rule is verification. Ryna can misremember a name, a date or a quote (hallucination), so never publish a fact, figure or quote without confirming it against the original source. On the free plan, near-unlimited daily messages let you prep questions, clean transcripts and test headlines freely. Uploading press releases and PDF reports for analysis, running web research for breaking stories, and using 'deep thinking' mode on complex files unlock with Plus (399.99 TRY/mo).
Why use Ryna AI for this
Pre-interview question set: Brief it on the person and topic and Ryna produces open-ended core questions plus 'so why?' follow-ups — questions that actually open answers, not clichés.
Transcript cleanup: Paste the raw transcript and it strips the 'um's, repetition and tangents down to readable, quotable blocks — without altering meaning.
Headline variants: 8-10 headlines on one story in a single pass — news-toned, curiosity-driven, SEO-focused and plain versions side by side, each with a one-line reason it works.
Document summarizing: Compress a 40-page report, court ruling or press release into 5 points and flag the 'here's the news' moments (upload PDFs directly on Plus).
Angle brainstorming: Six distinct angles on one event — human story, data, local impact, historical context — different stories you can pitch to the desk.
Two-way language: Translate and summarize a foreign-language statement into Turkish; adapt your Turkish story into English for the international wire.
Example prompts
Copy any prompt below and paste into chat.rynaai.com. Each prompt is tuned for a different scenario — try them all to see how Ryna AI adapts.
How it works — step by step
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Give Ryna the topic and context
Open chat.rynaai.com and, instead of a one-line request, give context: who, what, when, which outlet, which reader. Saying 'for a local paper, a reader who doesn't know zoning' versus 'an expert reader on the business desk' produces completely different output.
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Keep the task single and clear
Don't ask for questions and headlines in the same message; Ryna scatters. Say '10 interview questions' first, and if it's good, continue with 'now toughen these for a defensive subject.' Going step by step lifts quality at every stage.
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Paste or upload the raw material
Paste the transcript, press release or report text straight into the chat. Uploading long PDFs and files as-is requires Plus (399.99 TRY/mo); on the free plan, copy-pasting the text is enough.
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Verify — never publish as-is
Confirm every name, date, figure and quote against the original source. Compare a quote Ryna 'cleaned up' against the audio; check a claim it summarized from a report against the actual document. The draft saves you time, not responsibility.
Example: input → output
You ask
Story summary: The municipality handed 3 public parking lots to a private company for 10 years. The hourly rate will rise 60% in the first year. The opposition says there was no competition in the tender — only one bid. I want headline options for this story.
Ryna AI returns
Staying faithful to the core of the story, here are 8 headlines grouped by tone: News-toned: 1. Three public parking lots handed to private firm for 10 years 2. Parking rates set to jump 60% in the first year Curiosity-driven: 3. The city's parking lots changed hands — what will it cost you? 4. One bid, a ten-year handover: what's going on at the parking lots? SEO-focused: 5. Public parking rate hike 2026: the handover and the new tariff 6. Why are parking rates rising 60%? Plain / print front page: 7. Ten-year parking handover 8. Opposition: no competition in the tender Note: verify the '60%', '10 years' and 'single bid' claims against the tender document and the opposition's statement before publishing — I wrote this from the details you gave me.
Pro tips
- When asking for interview questions, describe the subject's likely defensive line: 'This person will deflect criticism with the process is ongoing; add follow-ups that pierce that.' You get questions that actually corner them, not clichés.
- When cleaning a transcript, explicitly say 'don't change the meaning or the words, only remove repetition and filler.' Otherwise Ryna 'polishes' the quote — which in journalism is quote fabrication.
- For headlines, name the reader and platform: 'for X (Twitter)', 'for Google News', 'for a print front page' each need different headlines. Ask for a 4-platform set at once and do the culling yourself.
- When summarizing a long document, ask for 'a 5-point summary first, then 3 contradictions or surprising figures worth a story' — not a flat summary, but a scan with a news eye.
- On a breaking story, don't trust Ryna's memory; use Plus web research to get real URLs, then open and verify those URLs yourself. The model can be wrong on the dates and figures it 'remembers'.
- With sensitive sources and leaked documents, anonymize names, addresses and identifying details before pasting into the chat; you don't need the real identity to test the structure and the claims.
Common mistakes to avoid
- ✕Publishing a quote or figure Ryna produced without verifying it — the model can invent names, dates and statements; confirmation is the journalist's job, not the model's.
- ✕Letting a quote's words change during transcript cleanup — a 'smoother' quote can become something the source never said.
- ✕Asking for questions, headlines, summary and angles in one message — the output goes shallow; request each task separately, step by step.
- ✕Saying 'find me an angle' with no context — if who, where and which reader are unclear, Ryna produces generic, clichéd angles.
- ✕Pasting a sensitive source's identity or an unpublished document in as-is — anonymize first and strip identifying details.
Who this is for
Reporters, investigative journalists, editors, freelance writers, doc makers.
FAQ
Does Ryna produce interview questions?
Yes. Give it the person, the topic and the story's purpose and it drafts open-ended core questions plus follow-ups. The output is a starting point; the best questions usually come from the detail you already know, so sharpen the draft with your own reporting.
Will my quotes get distorted during transcript cleanup?
If you say 'keep the meaning and the words, only remove repetition and filler,' it stays faithful. Even so, compare every cleaned quote against the audio — quote accuracy is entirely your responsibility.
Can I trust the sources and figures? (Verification disclaimer)
Don't trust them as-is. Ryna is a writing and research assistant, not a verification tool; it can invent names, dates, figures and quotes (hallucination). Plus web research gives real URLs, but independently confirming every fact, quote and figure against the original source is the journalism standard and is entirely on you.
How far does the free plan go?
Question prep, transcript cleanup (by pasting text), and headline and angle generation are near-unlimited on the free plan. Uploading PDFs/files for analysis, web research for breaking stories, and 'deep thinking' mode unlock with Plus (399.99 TRY/mo).
Does Ryna generate news images?
No. Ryna doesn't generate images — it works with text. On Plus, though, it can analyze an image or a photo of a document you upload and read and explain its contents.
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Free — near-unlimited daily messages
No credit card. Plus at $12/mo (399.99 TRY) unlocks image analysis, file analysis (PDF/Word/Excel), deep thinking, web research, and assistants.