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Perplexity is excited to make a $250,000 grant to Northwestern University's Medill School to support research on how AI will evolve and influence the journalism workflow for research, fact-checking, and understanding worldwide events.

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Uses concrete numbers instead of vague claims, which makes it credible and quotable.
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Hook: Leads with a number
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Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: plain, matter-of-fact
Mechanisms: Specificity
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