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Articles tagged public meetings (7)

The AP announces five AI tools to help local newsrooms with tasks like transcription and sorting pitches

Sophie CulpepperJune 15, 2023

AI will soon be able to cover public meetings. But should it?

“Is it ready for primetime, ready to be released to the masses? Absolutely not…But can it be done? Can you design an AI system that attends a city meeting and generates a story? Yeah, I did it.”

Sophie CulpepperMay 25, 2023

Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes

“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 7, 2022

City Bureau gets $10 million to make public meetings more public

Documenters has already trained more than 1,700 people who’ve covered more than 2,300 public meetings.

Hanaa' TameezMarch 3, 2021

Michigan Radio’s new tool makes news buried in city council meetings easier to find

“It is unbelievably complicated to find out what happens in these meetings, even though all the information is online.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 8, 2019

Local public meetings are a scrape and a tap away, on City Bureau’s Documenters tool

“The goal is not to produce content for media outlets. It’s to repair broken bridges with local government, to get people to the meetings, get their voices heard, and figure out the line between where the active citizen and journalist is.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 11, 2018

It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”

Chicago’s City Bureau is betting on local residents doing this sort of low-key not-quite-journalism at meetings, and now it’s expanding the model to Detroit.