“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
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Schmidt, Christine. "It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Jan. 2018. Web. 19 Oct. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2018, Jan. 11). It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 19, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/its-not-citizen-journalism-but-it-is-citizens-taking-notes-at-public-meetings-with-no-reporters-around/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 11, 2018. Accessed October 19, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/its-not-citizen-journalism-but-it-is-citizens-taking-notes-at-public-meetings-with-no-reporters-around/.
Wikipedia
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