What makes reporting the greatest job in the world is that you get to talk to people and hear their stories. Writing for City Limits allowed me to be a witness to the battles everyday New Yorkers were waging in neighborhoods throughout the city.
The New York Times isn't new to working with local newsrooms. But it does appear to be getting better at the task. As my late colleague Rick Edmonds reported in 2011, the Times Company sold 16 regional newspapers it owned to invest in its own "next wave of digital development." Fourteen years later, I think we can agree the Times has reinvested in itself pretty well.
The Connecticut Mirror's new artificial intelligence data reporter and product developer is trying to figure out how to tell stories that were previously impossible because of the volume of documents or deadline pressure. In Connecticut, where news is often made in municipal meetings, the nonprofit's beat reporters can't make it to all 169 different towns, Eichhorst said. One of her goals is to generate leads and get material from those meetings to reporters using AI tools.